[conspire] Hebrew

[Ruben Safir]

On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 12:58:11AM -0400, Ruben Safir wrote:
> On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 12:03:06AM -0400, Edward Cherlin wrote:
> > On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 17:44, 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.
> > 
> > You don't need to remap the keyboard. Numerous keyboard layouts are
> > included in every Linux distro. In Ubuntu, at least, they are in
> > /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols . This is a fundamental X function, and has
> > nothing to do with KDE, Gnome, Unity 2D, or any other desktop manager.
> > Your problem is, however, connected with the execrable documentation
> > of Linux I18n.
> > 
> > First, set an Israeli Hebrew keyboard in Keyboard Preferences or at
> > the command line with
> > 
> > setxkbmap il

setxkbmap us

> > 
> > פםןוטארק'/
> > ףךלחיעגדש
> > .ץתצמנהבסז
> > 
> 
> Nice.  i still think it should be done in the application and I sure wish
> I'd know it would affect every xterm and vi editor I had open on my X11
> desktop, with 12 C++ programs open in gvim in mid code before I ran that
> command!!
> 
> I'd be happy with one method to turn the input back to us if you would
> Ed :)  I can't really google it at the moment.
> 
> Ruben
> > Open LibreOffice from the menu, and type.
> > 
> > Switching the keyboard out of Hebrew from the command line is left as
> > an exercise for the command-line bigot. I know more than one answer.
> > 
> > > Ruben
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> 
> 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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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