Hebrew in urxvt
I've recently switched from Konsole to urxvt. Konsole has great bidi support, which allows one to switch from logical to visual text representation at the click of a button. I was missing bidi support in urxvt (and virtually every other terminal I tried. I was told to try mlterm, but I never got to it, as it does not look so exciting. I just found a way to view Hebrew characters correctly in urxvt, and wanted to share. urxvt supports perl extensions, so here's what you need to do: 0) you do have the culmus fonts installed, don't you? 1) install Text::Bidi. run 'cpan' and then 'install Text::Bidi'. 2) install the perl bidi extension by Moshe Kamensky from http://lists.schmorp.de/pipermail/rxvt-unicode/2006q3/000321.html. It appears at the end of his email, copy that to a file and place it under '/usr/lib/urxvt/perl'. Name it 'bidi'. 3) run urxvt as folllows: $ urxvt -fn 'xft:terminus-12,xft:comix no2 clm' -pe bidi this works beautifully, without even the need to click needed in Konsole. I am not editing files in Hebrew, just need to see an occasional Hebrew file name, or Hebrew logs. Cheers, --yuval signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: Hebrew in urxvt
whats wrong with piping text trough fribidi ? what do you do when you need to edit text? the text cursor gets crazy under all those tests. On Wednesday 04 November 2009 17:51:05 Yuval Hager wrote: > I've recently switched from Konsole to urxvt. Konsole has great bidi > support, which allows one to switch from logical to visual text > representation at the click of a button. > > I was missing bidi support in urxvt (and virtually every other terminal I > tried. I was told to try mlterm, but I never got to it, as it does not look > so exciting. > > I just found a way to view Hebrew characters correctly in urxvt, and wanted > to share. > urxvt supports perl extensions, so here's what you need to do: > 0) you do have the culmus fonts installed, don't you? > 1) install Text::Bidi. run 'cpan' and then 'install Text::Bidi'. > 2) install the perl bidi extension by Moshe Kamensky from > http://lists.schmorp.de/pipermail/rxvt-unicode/2006q3/000321.html. It > appears at the end of his email, copy that to a file and place it > under '/usr/lib/urxvt/perl'. Name it 'bidi'. > 3) run urxvt as folllows: > $ urxvt -fn 'xft:terminus-12,xft:comix no2 clm' -pe bidi > > this works beautifully, without even the need to click needed in Konsole. I > am not editing files in Hebrew, just need to see an occasional Hebrew file > name, or Hebrew logs. > > Cheers, > > --yuval > ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: Hebrew in urxvt
On Wednesday 04 November 2009, Diego Iastrubni wrote: > whats wrong with piping text trough fribidi ? This is exactly what this perl extension is doing. It just saves you the trouble. > what do you do when you need to edit text? the text cursor gets crazy > under all those tests. > Right. I usually just fire up kedit for these (rare) cases. --y > On Wednesday 04 November 2009 17:51:05 Yuval Hager wrote: > > I've recently switched from Konsole to urxvt. Konsole has great bidi > > support, which allows one to switch from logical to visual text > > representation at the click of a button. > > > > I was missing bidi support in urxvt (and virtually every other terminal > > I tried. I was told to try mlterm, but I never got to it, as it does > > not look so exciting. > > > > I just found a way to view Hebrew characters correctly in urxvt, and > > wanted to share. > > urxvt supports perl extensions, so here's what you need to do: > > 0) you do have the culmus fonts installed, don't you? > > 1) install Text::Bidi. run 'cpan' and then 'install Text::Bidi'. > > 2) install the perl bidi extension by Moshe Kamensky from > > http://lists.schmorp.de/pipermail/rxvt-unicode/2006q3/000321.html. It > > appears at the end of his email, copy that to a file and place it > > under '/usr/lib/urxvt/perl'. Name it 'bidi'. > > 3) run urxvt as folllows: > > $ urxvt -fn 'xft:terminus-12,xft:comix no2 clm' -pe bidi > > > > this works beautifully, without even the need to click needed in > > Konsole. I am not editing files in Hebrew, just need to see an > > occasional Hebrew file name, or Hebrew logs. > > > > Cheers, > > > > --yuval > > ___ > Linux-il mailing list > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il -- Yuval Hager [T] +972-77-341-4255 [...@] yha...@yhager.com signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
