Cannot view Hebrew in KDE

masmddr · 03-27-2009, 07:04 PM

Hello.

I installed SlackWare 12.2 with KDE 3.5 and I am having problems viewing Hebrew characters.
all file names in Hebrew are turned into question marks almost immediately after they are written (I see the Hebrew word for about a second and then it turns into question marks.)
I do see Hebrew well in OpenOffice and on web pages.

millgates · 03-27-2009, 07:19 PM

hi,
1) you should set your locale to your encoding - i don't know what encoding hebrew uses, but i suggest utf-8
in /etc/profile.d/lang.sh there should be a line like this

Code:

export LANG=en_US.UTF-8

in slackware utf8 isn't default, so you will have to change it

2) in konqueror options (or the file manager you use) you may have to change encoding settings too
3) if that doesn't help, try mounting your slackware partitions with iocharset=utf8
4) make sure you have unicode fonts installed
hope that helps

masmddr · 03-27-2009, 08:03 PM

I thank you for your help.
I ended adding the following to /etc/profile

Quote:

export LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
export LC_CTYPE="he_IL.UTF-8"
export LC_NUMERIC="he_IL.UTF-8"
export LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
export LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
export LC_MONETARY="he_IL.UTF-8"
export LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
export LC_PAPER="he_IL.UTF-8"
export LC_NAME="he_IL.UTF-8"
export LC_ADDRESS="he_IL.UTF-8"
export LC_TELEPHONE="he_IL.UTF-8"
export LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
export LC_IDENTIFICATION="he_IL.UTF-8"
export LC_ALL=""

that solved my problem