hebrew and X (for english speakers)

2003-06-10 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
hi all, i just converted my system to UTF-8. xterms, mutt, vim all are unicode capable now. the only thing left for me to conquer is a keymap and a font. i'm on debian testing. about fonts. now that everything is ISO10646, i need to start using ISO10646 fonts to get hebrew (vowels are necessa

Re: [OT] BEOS IS ALIVE!!!!1!

2003-06-03 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
On Tue 03 Jun 03, 1:14 AM, Stanislav Malyshev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > GD>> with the RedHat 9), the Windows NT/2K/XP/2K3 has better security > GD>> and scheduling (Though performance is impressive) > > Windows security is a funny thing. It is so good almost no one > understands/uses it :) I me

Re: hebrew on linux - first steps

2003-06-02 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
On Sun 01 Jun 03, 11:03 PM, Tzafrir Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 12:38:34PM -0700, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > > > > i'm running debian testing, but have some packages like pango and > > abiword pinned to unstable. > > > > b

hebrew on linux - first steps

2003-06-02 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
hola all, i'm an american trying to brush up on hebrew. other than temple, the last time i spoke or wrote hebrew was back in my apple ][ days. ;) i'm running debian testing, but have some packages like pango and abiword pinned to unstable. been playing around with abiword. found the "shalom"