[conspire] Hebrew

[Ehud Kaldor]

just to note - this is an American laptop with no engraved Hebrew chars on
the keyboard. i meant installing the Israel layout (in Keyboards). as i
said, Hebrew works out of the box, and libreoffice does a good work in
changing directions. other apps sometimes have problems with directions.

Ehud


On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 3:44 PM, Ruben Safir <ruben at mrbrklyn.com> wrote:

> On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 03:28:09PM -0700, Ehud Kaldor wrote:
> > with Ubuntu and Hebrew keyboard installed, it pretty much works. the
> > direction change button in LibreOffice does redirection of commas,
> > semicolons and such. had the same experience with Fedora a while ago.
> >
>
>
> Yeah, i don't understand this.  there is no difference in the keyboard
> other than the little panted letters.
>
> Ruben
>
> > Ehud
> >
> >
> > On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 2:44 PM, Ruben Safir <ruben at mrbrklyn.com> wrote:
> >
> > > How do you type Hebrew in libreoffice.  I've done a bit of googling on
> > > this, and come up with fonts and intructions to reverse the direction,
> > > but no means to actually type the letters in the application.  I see in
> > > KDE you can remap the keyboard.  I don't use KDE and frankly I'm
> puzzled
> > > about the need to remap the keyboard.
> > >
> > > Ruben
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> --
> http://www.mrbrklyn.com - Interesting Stuff
> http://www.nylxs.com - Leadership Development in Free Software
>
> So many immigrant groups have swept through our town that Brooklyn, like
> Atlantis, reaches mythological proportions in the mind of the world  - RI
> Safir 1998
>
> http://fairuse.nylxs.com  DRM is THEFT - We are the STAKEHOLDERS - RI
> Safir 2002
>
> "Yeah - I write Free Software...so SUE ME"
>
> "The tremendous problem we face is that we are becoming sharecroppers to
> our own cultural heritage -- we need the ability to participate in our own
> society."
>
> "> I'm an engineer. I choose the best tool for the job, politics be
> damned.<
> You must be a stupid engineer then, because politcs and technology have
> been attached at the hip since the 1st dynasty in Ancient Egypt.  I guess
> you missed that one."
>
> © Copyright for the Digital Millennium
>
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