That seems to have done the trick! Thanks, w1k0!

Interesting idea (assuming that the users would be willing to vote).

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By the way: maybe someone knows how LinuxQuestion.org counts the views:

1. If I enter the same post 100 times it counts each entrance.

2. If I enter the same post using the same IP number it counts that as one entrance but if I enter the same post using 10 different IP numbers it counts each IP number.

3. It doesn’t matter how many times I enter the post because LQ sets the cookie and counts all my views of the same post as a one view.

irgunII,

You don’t specified your location except for the vague “Directly above the center of the earth” so I couldn’t match the best font file for you. In /usr/share/kbd/consolefonts directory there’s a lot of font files except lat2-16.psfu.gz. Maybe some other font would be better suitable for you than the font including Central European characters (ISO-8859-2 encoding called also Latin-2).

Maybe irgun should be spelled אִרְגּוּן

Even if my assumption is false that's a good example of how UTF-8 allows to deal with RTL and LTR languages in the same document ;)

Be it true or false, that doesn't answer your question anyway.

USA, but it seems to be working with the font you suggested. I don't go into init 3 much anymore except the once in a while to install an nvidia driver anyway, heh.

Heh heh...you hit the nail on the head. Good call! (except those who can read/write/speak Hebrew don't really use all the little 'dots' to help with the vowels, except for the young children in school ;) ). It would have been kinda neat though if I could have entered my handle that way instead of phonetically like it is! lol

ארגון,

If you’d like to play with that one more time add at the end of /etc/rc.d/rc.local the following lines:

and run /etc/rc.d/rc.local in the console mode.

(The mentioned settings overwrite the settings from /etc/rc.d/rc.font and /etc/rc.d/rc.keymap files.)

Then press right Alt key with your right thumb and keeping it pressed try to type your name with the other fingers.

(I don’t know if it’s possible to write from right to left in the console mode.)

That font spoils the lines in Midnight Commander but in an non-harmful way. Maybe that configuration will keep you in the console mode for a while.

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As I assume you know Hebrew. I maintain some application for Window Maker and the similar window managers. It recognizes the Western European languages (ISO-8859-1), the Central European languages (ISO-8859-2), and the languages using Cyrillic alphabet (ISO-8859-5). I wanted to implement also the Hebrew language (ISO-8859-8) but I don’t know it so I’m afraid I can made that in a wrong way – for example design the characters in a non-optimal way.

Let me know if you’re willing to install my application and test it in order to report whether everything is all right or specify what’s wrong. You don’t have to run Window Maker in order to test my application. It works in the other window managers and desktop environments as well.

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(I hope I interpreted the string typed by Didier Spaier well.)

is there any advantage in using setfont over unicode_start ?

Maybe the Slackware community is very small, but utterly excited by this thread. :D

BTW, I have finally fixed the issues I had with xmessage. I just added these two lines in my .Xresources:

A warning remains, but the message is displayed promptly with all my fancy French characters. Here I use terminus, but you can replace it with one of the font displayed by xlsfonts (ex. "-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal-*-14-100-100-100-p-76-"). Just feed the empty "--" field of this one with a "*", and run xrdb -l ~/.Xresources to make X to reload your settings.

This fix also seems to work with xfig (replace above "Xmessage*" by "xfig*"), but sadly not with xdvi. With this one the best I get is a slightly broken selection menu (unexplicably, it doesn't render the "*.dvi" "File Mask" string, all except this being fine) using these options (it doesn't accept them under the "xdvi" resource class):

I still look for a way to make fbrun to accept accented character in input (it can handle them when they are passed with the "-text" option, but not in the interactive mode).

I think it's the same. With "vt.default_utf8" set to 1 or not set, the console is in UTF-8, so setfont will load the Unicode map of the given font.

YES

so no problems with ä, ö, å, æ, and ø :P

Maybe they do know the answer but choose simply not to vote.

Oh, no I was just saying it would have been kinda fun, but it'd be too much a PITA to actually use much anywhere as I'd either have anyone with a lick of sense throw e-mails in the trash without opening them thinking they were spam or worse, or the rest replying in e-mails or forums etc, what the heck those funny things were.

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Yep, you got the name correct without the vowels. Perfect.

My hebrew is really awfully poor (hell, my *english* is bad enough! lol). I've got dual-citizenship but only was there long enough to serve my 3 years in the Israeli army and I've not had to use the language since I came back to the states (didn't want to leave Israel but circumstances needed me back here and then I became disabled and haven't been able afford to go back since then) in '90.

I could at least try with what little I know/remember and still try to help...it'd be better than nothing, right? You'll have to explain in plain and simple terms how to work it and what you want me to do exactly...I'm no programmer or anything like that, just a simple user who likes Linux over M$ (I used M$ from ~'94 - '00 and got sick of it that fast).

If it'd be easier, here's my e-mail you can use afrotrap {aT] gee mail d0t c0m

Would like to use UTF-8, but how?
 

I made the wrong choice during installation. (Slaps forehead. Why did I care that vi wouldn't work? I wouldn't touch vi with a ten foot pole! That old-school hesitation about new-fangled UTF-8 gives me a sinking feeling this distro will be outdated in other ways.)

I'm now looking at the Unicode-HOWTO in /usr/doc. It's verbose and is mainly arm-waving aboput UTF-8 while pointing to tarballs for this and that individual application. (Tarballs?! Don't they have a yum or apt-get equivalent?) It all looks very complicated. Perhaps a complete reinstall (approx 45 minutes last time) would actually be the easier, faster way.

Has anyone found a straightforward way to select character encoding system-wide?

Nope, and we don't want it.

If you are able to change two lines (comment one and uncomment the other) in a text-file (/etc/profile.d/lang.sh) and if you are able to do that in less than 45 minutes then the reinstall is is not the easier or faster method.

Thanks. The Unicode-HOWTO doesn't even mention lang.sh!

Could I have found this information myself somewhere in LinuxQuestions.org? I'm new to the site.