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The Hebrew HOWTO
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Maintained by Yair G. Rajwan, <tt>yair@hobbes.jct.ac.il</tt>
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v0.4, 12 September 1995
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This `Frequently Asked Questions' (FAQ) / HOWTO document describes how
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to configure your Linux machine to use Hebrew characters on X-Windows
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and Virtual Consoles. The most up-to-date version of the Hebrew-HOWTO
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may be obtained from my Web page
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<http://shekel.jct.ac.il/~rajwan/Hebrew.html> or from
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<tt>ftp://hobbes.jct.ac.il</tt> <ftp://hobbes.jct.ac.il>.
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______________________________________________________________________
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Table of Contents
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1. Introduction
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1.1 Changes.
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1.2 Thanks
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2. Standards for representation of Hebrew characters
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2.1 ASCII
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2.2 DOS Hebrew
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2.3 ISO Hebrew
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2.4 OLD PC Hebrew
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2.5 Conversions
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3. Virtual Consoles (VCs)
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4. X Windows setup - XFree86 3.1
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4.1 Hebrew fonts.
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4.2 Installing fonts
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4.3 Making an X application to use Hebrew fonts.
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4.3.1 Xterm
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4.3.2 Netscape
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4.4 Mapping the keyboard.
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4.5 Integrating all the above, examples.
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5. Shells setup.
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5.1 bash
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5.2 tcsh
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6. Applications
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6.1 Vim
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6.2 Hebrew pine and pico
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6.3 Some emacs Hebrew ports.
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6.4 Dosemu
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6.5 XHTerm
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6.6 TeX--XeT - Hebrew Tex.
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7. Printer setup
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8. Commercial products.
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8.1 El-Mar software.
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9. Hebrew around the Internet.
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9.1 WWW
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9.2 Gopher
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9.3 Ftp
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1. Introduction
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Any language setup, other than the original American English, has two
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issues:
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1. Displaying the right characters (fonts) - for Hebrew it's
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ISO-8859-8 standard.
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2. Mapping the keyboard.
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There is much more to Hebrew than that (like right to left, geometry
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in X-Windows,etc), but this HOWTO (at least for the first draft) deals
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only with the basic issues.
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More information can be found in the various "national" HOWTOs
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(German, Danish, etc.) and in the ISO 8859-1 HOWTO
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(ftp://ftp.vlsivie.tuwien.ac.at/pub/8bit
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<ftp://ftp.vlsivie.tuwien.ac.at/pub/8bit> FAQ-ISO-8859-1).
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1.1. Changes.
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o FIRST DRAFT to 0.2.
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Most of this file is taken from the first draft by Vlad Moseanu.
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o 0.2 to 0.3Beta.
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Added excerpts from documents from the archive e-brew.zip from
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ftp://ftp.jer1.co.il/pub/software/msdos/communication
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<ftp://ftp.jer1.co.il/pub/software/msdos/communication>, and some
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bug fixes with the help of JCT Linux-il group members.
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o 0.3Beta to 0.4.
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After the first release of the Hebrew-HOWTO to the Linux-il it
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contain all the E-mail send to me regarding spelling/grammer and
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Tex-Xet, Mule and Vim info.
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1.2. Thanks
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This HOWTO prepared by the help of all the group: Linux-il - 'The
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Israeli Linux users group' and especially by:
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The Linux-il group (Linux-il@hagiga.jct.ac.il)
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Vlad Moseanu (vlad@actcom.co.il)
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Gili Granot (gil@csc.cs.technion.ac.il)
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Harvey J. Stein (hjstein@math.huji.ac.il)
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Dovie Adler (dadler@hobbes.jct.ac.il)
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Gavrie Philipson (gavrie@shekel.jct.ac.il)
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2. Standards for representation of Hebrew characters
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2.1. ASCII
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To make one thing clear, for once and forever: There is no such thing
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as 8-bit ASCII. ASCII is only 7 bits. Any 8-bit code is not ASCII, but
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that doesn't mean it's not standard. ISO-8859-8 is standard, but not
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ASCII. Thanks!
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2.2. DOS Hebrew
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The Hebrew encoding starts at 128d for Aleph. Therefore, encoding
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requires 8 bits. This is what you have on the Video card EPROM
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hardware fonts, all of the Hebrew DOS based editors use this table
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(Qtext, HED, etc.).
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2.3. ISO Hebrew
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The Hebrew encoding starts at 224 for Aleph. This is the Internet
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standard, international standard and basically the standard for Ms-
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Windows and for Macintoshes (Dagesh, etc...).
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2.4. OLD PC Hebrew
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This is 7-bit, and obsolete, as it occupies essentially the same ASCII
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range as English lowercase letters. So, it is best avoided. However,
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when ISO Hebrew gets its eighth bit stripped off by some ignorant Unix
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mail program (so you get a jumble of English letters for the Hebrew
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part of your message and the regular English, reversed or not, mixed
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in), you will get this, and will need to transform it to PC or ISO. If
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there was English mixed in with the Hebrew, this will be a sad
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situation, as you will either get Hebrew plus jumble, or English plus
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jumble...
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2.5. Conversions
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Here are some simple scripts to convert from each standard to the
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other:
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DOS - ISO: tr '\200-\232' '\340-\372' < {dos_file} > {iso_file}
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ISO - DOS: tr '\340-\372' '\200-\232' < {iso_file} > {dos_file}
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OLD - DOS: tr -z '\200-\232' < {old_Hebrew_file} > {dos_file}
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NOTE: The numbers use by tr are in octal!
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3. Virtual Consoles (VCs)
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Every distribution of Slackware comes with kbd; the package is called
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keytbls under Slackware (a4 in 2.3.0 - kbd 0.90). Joel Hoffman has
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contributed Hebrew fonts and keymaps from his original codepage.tar.Z
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file. Look under /usr/lib/kbd for iso08.* files. It follows ISO 8859-8
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and the Hebrew keytables and maps.
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Put the following lines in /etc/rc.d/rc.local:
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#!/bin/sh
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# Put any local setup commands in here
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#
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INITTY=/dev/tty[1-6]
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PATH=/sbin:/etc:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
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#
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# kbd - Set the the console font and keyboard
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# set numlock and set metabit mode on tty1 .. tty8
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for tty in $INITTY
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do
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# setleds -D +num < $tty > /dev/null
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setmetamode metabit < $tty > /dev/null
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done
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# Latin8(Hebrew) keyboard/console
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setfont iso08.f16
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mapscrn trivial
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loadkeys Hebrew
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# enable mapping
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for tty in $INITTY
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do
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echo -n -e "\\033(K" >$tty
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done
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NOTE: If you are using X Windows be careful with "setleds", it may
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hang the X server.
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The above setup works fine with the Hebrew version of pico (pine) and
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displays correctly ISO 8859-8 Hebrew (X Windows, MS Windows).
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4. X Windows setup - XFree86 3.1
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4.1. Hebrew fonts.
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XFree86 3.1 comes with two Hebrew fonts: heb6x13, heb8x13. Additional
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Hebrew fonts can be found on the Net:
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o The web Type1 fonts (Helvetica/David style (proportional) and
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Courier/Shalom Stick style (fixed space) ) from the snunit-project
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archive at ftp://snunit.huji.ac.il/pub/fonts/
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<ftp://snunit.huji.ac.il/pub/fonts/>, it's good for netscape Hebrew
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pages.
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o Avner Lottem, (lottem@techUnix.technion.ac.il) put some Hebrew-ISO
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8859-8 fonts on archive at
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ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/X11/fonts/hebxfonts-0.1.tgz
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<ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/X11/fonts/>, it has a font that's
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good for dosemu under X-Windows (read his README file).
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4.2. Installing fonts
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o Fonts exaptable: pcf (Portable Compiled Format), bdf (Bitmap
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Distribution Format), pfb (Type1 fonts).
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o Move the fonts to some existing directory (/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc)
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or create a new one (/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Hebrew). compress (to *.Z)
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the fonts to save space (NOT GZIP!!!).
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o Run the mkfontdir to create/re-create the fonts.dir and edit
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fonts.alias (optional) to define new aliases.
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o For Type1 fonts, mkfontdir does nothing. You have to add these
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fonts to fonts.dir manually.
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o Make sure that the directory is in the X server path. Edit the
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XF86Config and add the appropriate path -- FontPath
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"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/...".
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4.3. Making an X application to use Hebrew fonts.
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In short you need to set the appropriate resource.
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4.3.1. Xterm
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Put the following line in the $HOME/.Xresources:
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xterm*font: heb8x13
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or simply start xterm with xterm -fn heb8x13 The above font is way too
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small, so search for a better one ... See the comments/examples on
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starting X11.
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4.3.2. Netscape
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Usaly you can use the hebrew fonts from ``snunit - webfonts'', Install
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it ``as described'', and then put the next defaults in your local
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.Xdefaults or in the app-defaults/Netscape.
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*documentFonts.latin1.variable.italic*slant: r
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*documentFonts.latin1.variable.boldItalic*slant: r
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*documentFonts.latin1.variable*family: web
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*documentFonts.latin1.fixed*family: webmono
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*documentFonts.latin1*registry: iso8859
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*documentFonts.latin1*encoding: 8
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In general you can put any fonts insted of the webfonts files as long
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as its supported by X11 ``as described''.
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4.4. Mapping the keyboard.
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For some reason the X server doesn't inherit the keymap from the
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previous paragraph, and anyway I would like to define ALT Left and ALT
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Right and Scroll Lock. When pressing ALT together with some key it
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will generate a Hebrew character, Scroll Lock will lock in Hebrew
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mode.
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To do that we need to use xmodmap. Following is a Xmodmap which also
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corrects the bugs with the "Num Lock":
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! Hebrew key mapping for XFree86 (for US/Hebrew keyboards).
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! By Vlad Moseanu
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keysym Alt_L = Mode_switch
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keysym Alt_R = Mode_switch
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!clear Mod1
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clear Mod2
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!add Mod1 = Alt_L
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add Mod2 = Mode_switch
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!
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! Set the mapping for each key
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!
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keycode 8 =
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keycode 9 = Escape
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keycode 10 = 1 exclam
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keycode 11 = 2 at
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keycode 12 = 3 numbersign
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keycode 13 = 4 dollar
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keycode 14 = 5 percent
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keycode 15 = 6 asciicircum
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keycode 16 = 7 ampersand
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keycode 17 = 8 asterisk
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keycode 18 = 9 parenleft
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keycode 19 = 0 parenright
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keycode 20 = minus underscore
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keycode 21 = equal plus
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keycode 22 = Delete
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keycode 23 = Tab
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keycode 24 = q Q slash Q
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keycode 25 = w W apostrophe W
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keycode 26 = e E 0x00f7 E
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keycode 27 = r R 0x00f8 R
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keycode 28 = t T 0x00e0 T
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keycode 29 = y Y 0x00e8 Y
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keycode 30 = u U 0x00e5 U
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keycode 31 = i I 0x00ef I
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keycode 32 = o O 0x00ed O
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keycode 33 = p P 0x00f4 P
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keycode 34 = bracketleft braceleft
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keycode 35 = bracketright braceright
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keycode 36 = Return
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keycode 37 = Control_L
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keycode 38 = a A 0x00f9 A
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keycode 39 = s S 0x00e3 S
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keycode 40 = d D 0x00e2 D
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keycode 41 = f F 0x00eb F
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keycode 42 = g G 0x00f2 G
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keycode 43 = h H 0x00e9 H
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keycode 44 = j J 0x00e7 J
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keycode 45 = k K 0x00ec K
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keycode 46 = l L 0x00ea L
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keycode 47 = semicolon colon 0x00f3 colon
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keycode 48 = apostrophe quotedbl comma quotedbl
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keycode 49 = grave asciitilde semicolon asciitilde
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keycode 50 = Shift_L
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keycode 51 = backslash bar
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keycode 52 = z Z 0x00e6 Z
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keycode 53 = x X 0x00f1 X
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keycode 54 = c C 0x00e1 C
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keycode 55 = v V 0x00e4 V
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keycode 56 = b B 0x00f0 B
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keycode 57 = n N 0x00ee N
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keycode 58 = m M 0x00f6 M
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keycode 59 = comma less 0x00fa less
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keycode 60 = period greater 0x00f5 greater
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keycode 61 = slash question period question
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keycode 62 = Shift_R
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keycode 63 = KP_Multiply
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!keycode 64 = Alt_L Meta_L
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keycode 65 = space
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keycode 66 = Caps_Lock
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keycode 67 = F1
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keycode 68 = F2
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keycode 69 = F3
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keycode 70 = F4
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keycode 71 = F5
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keycode 72 = F6
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keycode 73 = F7
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keycode 74 = F8
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keycode 75 = Escape
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keycode 76 = F10
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keycode 77 = Num_Lock
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keycode 78 = Scroll_Lock
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keycode 79 = KP_7
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keycode 80 = KP_8
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keycode 81 = KP_9
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keycode 82 = KP_Subtract
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keycode 83 = KP_4
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keycode 84 = KP_5
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keycode 85 = KP_6
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keycode 86 = KP_Add
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keycode 87 = KP_1
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keycode 88 = KP_2
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keycode 89 = KP_3
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keycode 90 = KP_0
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keycode 91 = KP_Decimal
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keycode 92 = Sys_Req
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keycode 93 =
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keycode 94 =
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keycode 95 = F11
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keycode 96 = F12
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keycode 97 = Home
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keycode 98 = Up
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keycode 99 = Prior
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keycode 100 = Left
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keycode 101 = Begin
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keycode 102 = Right
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keycode 103 = End
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keycode 104 = Down
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keycode 105 = Next
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keycode 106 = Insert
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keycode 107 = Delete
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keycode 108 = KP_Enter
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keycode 109 = Control_R
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keycode 110 = Pause
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keycode 111 = Print
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keycode 112 = KP_Divide
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!keycode 113 = Alt_R Meta_R
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keycode 114 = Break
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! This xmodmap file can be use to set the correct numerical keypad mapping
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! when "ServerNumLock" is set in the XF86Config file. In this case the
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! Xserver takes care of the Num Lock processing.
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!
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!
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keycode 136 = KP_7
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keycode 137 = KP_8
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keycode 138 = KP_9
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keycode 139 = KP_4
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keycode 140 = KP_5
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keycode 141 = KP_6
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keycode 142 = KP_1
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keycode 143 = KP_2
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keycode 144 = KP_3
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keycode 145 = KP_0
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keycode 146 = KP_Decimal
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keycode 147 = Home
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keycode 148 = Up
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keycode 149 = Prior
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keycode 150 = Left
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keycode 151 = Begin
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keycode 152 = Right
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keycode 153 = End
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keycode 154 = Down
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keycode 155 = Next
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keycode 156 = Insert
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keycode 157 = Delete
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To use the Xmodmap above define "Scroll-Lock Mode-Lock" in the
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XF86Config.
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4.5. Integrating all the above, examples.
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If you are using xdm a $HOME/.xsession should look like the following:
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#!/bin/sh
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# $XConsortium: Xsession,v 1.9 92/08/29 16:24:57 gildea Exp $
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#
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# General defs
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#
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export OPENWINHOME=/usr/openwin
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export MANPATH=/usr/local/man:/usr/man/preformat:/usr/man:/usr/X11R6/man
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#export HOSTNAME="`cat /etc/HOSTNAME`"
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export PATH="/bin: /usr/bin: /usr/X11/bin: /usr/X386/bin: /usr/TeX/bini: /usr/local/bin: /usr/games:."
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LESS=-MM
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if [ -z $XAPPLRESDIR ]; then
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XAPPLRESDIR=/usr/lib/X11/app-defaults:/usr/local/lib/X11/app-defaults
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else
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XAPPLRESDIR=$XAPPLRESDIR:/usr/lib/X11/app-defaults
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fi
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export XAPPLRESDIR
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sysresources=/usr/lib/X11/Xresources
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sysmodmap=/usr/lib/X11/Xmodmap
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resources=$HOME/.Xresources
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xmodmap=$HOME/.Xmodmap
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if [ -f $sysresources ]; then
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xrdb -merge $sysresources
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fi
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if [ -f $sysmodmap ]; then
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xmodmap $sysmodmap
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fi
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if [ -f $resources ]; then
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xrdb -merge $resources
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fi
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if [ -f $xmodmap ]; then
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xmodmap $xmodmap
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fi
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#
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# Start applications
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#
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# xterm -ls -sb &
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xhost + # look out !!!
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exec fvwm
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If you prefer startx use the above as an example for .xinitrc.
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5. Shells setup.
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For more details read the ``ISO 8859-1'' HOWTO.
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5.1. bash
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Create a $HOME/.inputrc contain the following:
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set meta-flag On
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set convert-meta Off
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set output-meta On
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5.2. tcsh
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Define the following in the $HOME/.login or /etc/csh.login:
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setenv LANG iw_IL.ISO8859-8 (or iw_IL) Actually because the
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binary version of tcsh is complied without nls the LANG can be set to
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anything and it will still work (no need for /usr/lib/nls...). The
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lang. name also shows my Digital bias ...
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6. Applications
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6.1. Vim
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o The Vim is a Vi IMproved editor with some enhanced commands and the
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hebrew support was made bu Dov Grobgeld (HED developer).
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o Another Vim patch announced by Avner Lottem,
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lottem@techunix.technion.ac.il and can be obtained from
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ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/apps/editors/vi/vim3.0-rlh0.1.tgz
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<ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/apps/editors/vi/vim3.0-rlh0.1.tgz>.
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o For more info, you can look at
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http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~gil/var.html
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<http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~gil/var.html>
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6.2. Hebrew pine and pico
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The pine and it's additional editor pico had been changed by Helen
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Zommer from CC-huji and has a bug-report mail: pineh-
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bug@horizon.cc.huji.ac.il. It can be down-loaded from
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ftp://horizon.cc.huji.ac.il/pub <ftp://horizon.cc.huji.ac.il/pub>.
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6.3. Some emacs Hebrew ports.
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o Hebrew package by Joseph Friedman. It includes some Hebrew fonts in
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BDF format, patch for emacs 18.58 and an elisp package. It is fine,
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but nobody uses emacs 18.* anymore. It can be obtained from:
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ftp://archive.cis.ohio-state.edu/pub/gnu/emacs/elisp-
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archive/misc/Hebrew.tar.Z <ftp://archive.cis.ohio-
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state.edu/pub/gnu/emacs/elisp-archive/misc/Hebrew.tar.Z>.
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o A very simple Hebrew package. Includes only right-to-left cursor
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movement support and right-to-left sorting. Works without any
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patches with FSF emacs 19. Can be obtained from
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ftp://archive.cis.ohio-state.edu/pub/gnu/emacs/elisp-
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archive/misc/Hebrew.el.Z <ftp://archive.cis.ohio-
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state.edu/pub/gnu/emacs/elisp-archive/misc/Hebrew.el.Z>.
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o One of emacs branches - MULE (Multi Lingual Emacs) Supports a lot
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of languages including Hebrew. It compiles and runs under Linux
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with no problem. It is full Emacs, with Hebrew support and double-
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direction handling. It can be obtained from:
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ftp://kelim.jct.ac.il/pub/Hebrew <ftp://kelim.jct.ac.il/pub/Hebrew>
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6.4. Dosemu
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For a VC dosemu you can use your Hebrew from the Video card EPROM, and
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if you don't have it there are plenty of Hebrew dos fonts from EGA
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support to the VGA Hebrew support.
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For X-Windows support you should download the file:
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ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/X11/fonts/hebxfonts-0.1.tgz
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<ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/X11/fonts/hebxfonts-0.1.tgz> it's
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contain some fonts include one called vgah.pcf that you should install
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it on your fonts directory as describe ``above'' the fonts are:
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6.5. XHTerm
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There is a main port of the regular X-Term program for use with a
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Hebrew fonts - XHTerm = xterm + Hebrew support. The port for a sun
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machine was made avalible by the help of Danny
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<tt>danny@cs.huji.ac.il</tt>. Evgeny has some patch for use this port
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under Linux. His version should come with a pre-compiled XHTerm for
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both X11R5 and X11R6. You should use xhterm with the option -fn and a
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Hebrew font ``as described''! Danny's port (for SUN) can be obtained
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from: ftp://ftp.huji.ac.il/pub/local/xhterm
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<ftp://ftp.huji.ac.il/pub/local/xhterm> and the patched version of
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Evgeny Stambulchik is on: ftp://plasma-
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gate.weizmann.ac.il/pub/software/linux <ftp://plasma-
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gate.weizmann.ac.il/pub/software/linux> Get it from there and you'll
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get 5 ``fonts with it'': [heb10x20.pcf, heb6x13.bdf, heb6x13.pcf,
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heb8x13.bdf, heb8x13.pcf]
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6.6. TeX--XeT - Hebrew Tex.
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The bigest problem with Tex with Hebrew is that the charecters should
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go backwards relative to Visual look (i.e. pico inserts the charecters
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from right to left), so the best thing is to get XHterm with a regular
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emacs and write the Hebrew left to right, backwards as well.
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The newer NTeX distribution on sunsite (v1.5) includes everything,
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including TeX--XeT, precompiled for Linux. It can be obtained from
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ftp://sunsite.unc.edu.gz/pub/Linux/apps/tex/ntex
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<ftp://sunsite.unc.edu.gz/pub/Linux/apps/tex/ntex>. An older version
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of TeX--XeT can be obtained from ftp://noa.huji.ac.il/tex
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<ftp://noa.huji.ac.il/tex>. This older version, however, has to be
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recompiled (not recommended).
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These TeX distributions are fine if you use LaTeX2.09. If you want to
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use LaTeX2e (the current de facto standard) you have a problem. Alon
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Ziv (alonz@csa.cs.technion.ac.il) is currently working in support for
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LaTeX2e with Hebrew, using the Babel languages system. I don't know
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the current status of his work -- ask him!
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7. Printer setup
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Mainly there is not to say, if you have a regular ASCII line printer
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(who does, these days?) there is a good chance that there are Hebrew
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fonts in it on the EPROM chip.
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If you use PostScript, you should download soft fonts to the printer
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(you can always use the ``earlier mentioned'' Web fonts for that.
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These fonts are also useable with Ghostscript).
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If you have a PCL printer (LaserJet etc.), you can either use font
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cartridges or use Ghostscript.
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8. Commercial products.
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8.1. El-Mar software.
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The Hebrew Support for X-Windows & Motif, is a product of El-Mar
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Software, which adds Hebrew functionality to many of the parts and
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layers of X-Windows and Motif, including Xlib, all of the widgets of
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Motif, hterm (Hebrew xterm), demos and simple useful applications
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(e.g. bi-lingual Motif-based editor), fonts (including scalable
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Type1), keyboard-manager in order to allow Hebrew and push-mode for
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non-Motif applications, etc.
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Despite allowing many new features and variations for Motif widgets,
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the support doesn't have any modification to internal data-structures
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of Motif, so existing applications which were compiled and linked
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under non-Hebrew environment and libraries, can be relinked (without
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compilation!) and run with Hebrew (you can replace shared-libraries,
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so even the relink is not needed!)
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By using another tool of us, Motif/Xplorer, you can take commercial
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applications (without their source) and translate them to Hebrew. This
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was the way of giving Hebrew support for Oracle Forms 4, Intellicorp's
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Kappa and OMW, CA-Unicenter, and many other leading UNIX tools sold in
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Israel. This product was purchased and adopted by most of the
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workstation vendors (9 of them, including the biggest: Sun, HP, SGI),
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and many other software houses. There are Makefiles for more than 30
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platforms and operating systems.
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We believe only in open software, so all the customers get the
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compelete source code. We have good relations with the leading forces
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in this industry, including the technical staff of X-Consortium and
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the technical staff of COSE.
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Eli Marmor
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El-Mar Software Ltd.
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Voice: 050-237338
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FAX: 09-984279
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marmor@sunshine.cs.biu.ac.il
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P.S.: The announcement of the Arabic Support for X-Windows & Motif, is
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expected in January. English, Hebrew, and Arabic will be handled by 8
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bits (!), including the full set of Arabic glyphes.
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9. Hebrew around the Internet.
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9.1. WWW
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o Jerusalem 1 - has many program and FAQ files about Hebrew on Unix
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and other platforms http://www.jer1.co.il <http://www.jer1.co.il>.
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o Gili Granot's Hebrew archive page - sumerize of all Hebrew related
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issues around the Web (include all kind of files)
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http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~gil
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<http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~gil>.
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o Gavrie has some info about Hebrew on his ftp site:
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ftp://kelim.jct.ac.il <ftp://kelim.jct.ac.il>
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9.2. Gopher
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o A one word testing for Hebrew-gopher can be found on
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gopher://shekel.jct.ac.il <gopher://shekel.jct.ac.il>
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9.3. Ftp
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o Some Tex-Xet programs and the main FTP site for Tex Hebrew support
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for PC and Unix is at ftp://noa.huji.ac.il/tex
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<ftp://noa.huji.ac.il/tex>.
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o Horizon site as ``said allready'' contains the main site of
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pine/pico Hebrew support - ftp://horizon.huji.ac.il/pub
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<ftp://horizon.huji.ac.il/pub>.
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o Gili Granot's Hebrew archive page ftp site is at
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ftp://ssl.cs.technion.ac.il/pub <ftp://ssl.cs.technion.ac.il/pub>.
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