mozilla mail Hebrew encoding [was: Re: crossover office info]

2002-11-28 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Mon, 18 Nov 2002, Hetz Ben-Hamo wrote: > On Mon, 18 Nov 2002 19:26:14 +0200, Daniel Feiglin wrote [ snip ] > > ?? ?? ?? "?? ?? ? ?? ??? ?? > > " > > ?? ?? ? ? ?? ?? > > If you're sending hebrew messages, then please make sure you're sending i

Re: crossover office info - The Definitive How (Not ) To

2002-11-20 Thread Daniel Feiglin
Reuven M. Lerner wrote: (Whoops, I hadn't cc'ed my previous message to the list. That's what I get for reading it in a digest...) Daniel> You must install the second CD as I indicated, to make the Daniel> think work right. From that point you can type, Daniel> ~/cxoffice/bin/msword or

Re: crossover office info - The Definitive How (Not ) To

2002-11-20 Thread Reuven M. Lerner
(Whoops, I hadn't cc'ed my previous message to the list. That's what I get for reading it in a digest...) Daniel> You must install the second CD as I indicated, to make the Daniel> think work right. From that point you can type, Daniel> ~/cxoffice/bin/msword or whatever without the LA

Re: crossover office info - The Definitive How (Not ) To

2002-11-20 Thread Daniel Feiglin
Shachar Shemesh wrote: Hi Danny, I'm wondering whether you can elaborate (for debug purposes) on some of your experience. Daniel Feiglin wrote: 2. For the time being, do NOT do a super-user install. Even if you run LANG-he_IL/opt/cxoffice/bin/cxoffice officesetup you will not get the Hebrew

Re: crossover office info - The Definitive How (Not ) To

2002-11-20 Thread Daniel Feiglin
Reuven M. Lerner wrote: Hi, guys. I've been working toward getting CrossOver Office installed with Hebrew, and it just about works. I'm not sure whether the last few problems I'm having have to do with CrossOver Office, Red Hat 8.0, or the version of Word I'm using. I'm installing Microsoft Of

Re: crossover office info

2002-11-19 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Arie Folger wrote: Note: the Bar Ilan CD uses a copy protection scheme which requires the original cd. I don't know how it works, but I assume that Wine needs the code to read something off the cd so that BI can match its authentication. SafeDisc I copy protected CDs are supported under Wine

Re: crossover office info

2002-11-19 Thread Arie Folger
On Tuesday 19 November 2002 03:05, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > 4. I have asked in the past for help, and indicated quite clearly > that even telling me "I use this application on Windows, and it uses > Hebrew" is considered help, as it focuses my work. So far, the only one to > come forward and offer

Re: crossover office info - The Definitive How (Not ) To

2002-11-19 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Hi Danny, I'm wondering whether you can elaborate (for debug purposes) on some of your experience. Daniel Feiglin wrote: 2. For the time being, do NOT do a super-user install. Even if you run LANG-he_IL/opt/cxoffice/bin/cxoffice officesetup you will not get the Hebrew popup boxes and dialogue

Re: crossover office info - The Definitive How (Not ) To

2002-11-19 Thread Daniel Feiglin
Hello folks! After carefully reviewing my correspondence with Hetz, relevent bits of the Crossover FAQ, and a few false starts, I finally have MS Office up an running. To save many people future headaches, I've summarised the main steps, along with a few recommendations. 1. The environment -

Re: crossover office info

2002-11-19 Thread Daniel Feiglin
Hetz Ben-Hamo wrote: Oy vay! I'll try again (I've set the encoding to ISO 8859-8-1): &he;&pe;&ayin;&lamed; &alef;&tav; &tav;&vav;&kaf;&nun;&yod;&tav; &he;&he;&tav;&qof;&nun;&he; &mem;&tav;&vav;&fkaf; "&yod;&shin; &lamed;&he;&tav;&qof;&yod;&fnun; &yod;&yod;&shin;&vav;&fmem; &zayin;&he; &kaf;&dale

Re: crossover office info

2002-11-19 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
> 1. It's pretty preliminary. There's lots more to be done. That said, it > is obviously good enough to display message boxes with Hebrew for people > in a readable, if not perfect, ordering. True. > 2. The reason Office works so well with BiDi is because the document > itself uses it's own code

Re: crossover office info

2002-11-19 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Here is the "as official as you can hope to get" status of Hebrew on Wine (and as far as I can tell, all wine derived products, such as crossover). 1. It's pretty preliminary. There's lots more to be done. That said, it is obviously good enough to display message boxes with Hebrew for people i

Re: crossover office info

2002-11-18 Thread Hetz Ben-Hamo
> Oy vay! I'll try again (I've set the encoding to ISO 8859-8-1): > > äôòì àú úåëðéú ääú÷ðä îúåê "éù ìäú÷éï ééùåí æä ëãé ìäôòéì àåúå > " > äîé÷åí áå äú÷ðú áî÷åí àú äééùåí > > That's pretty cryptic! Hmm, SuSE with their mount commands... grr... Do this: $ su # mount -t iso9660 -r -o unhide /de

Re: crossover office info

2002-11-18 Thread Daniel Feiglin
Hetz Ben-Hamo wrote: On Mon, 18 Nov 2002 19:26:14 +0200, Daniel Feiglin wrote Hello Hetz! I've also tried putting up Crossover, but the only things that run are Internet Explorer and the Media Player. All of the office apps give a pop up box with this: ?? ?? ?? ???

Re: crossover office info

2002-11-18 Thread Hetz Ben-Hamo
On Mon, 18 Nov 2002 19:26:14 +0200, Daniel Feiglin wrote > Hello Hetz! > > I've also tried putting up Crossover, but the only things that run are > Internet Explorer and the Media Player. All of the office apps give a > pop up box with this: > > ?? ?? ?? "?? ?? ? ?? ??

Re: crossover office info

2002-11-18 Thread Daniel Feiglin
Hello Hetz! I've also tried putting up Crossover, but the only things that run are Internet Explorer and the Media Player. All of the office apps give a pop up box with this: ?? ?? ?? "?? ?? ? ?? ??? ?? " ?? ?? ? ? ?? ?? 1. To the best of my k

crossover office info

2002-11-18 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi People, I'm getting lots of emails from people asking about CrossOver Office & hebrew related issues, and most of these people are subscribed here - so I thought to explain everything here, so if you're not interested in this info, feel free to drop this email to >/dev/null ;) Now to some i