Re: Does OpenBSD support Hebrew?

2007-09-24 Thread Amit Finkler
Marc, Hebrew works fine on openoffice with all the major linux distributions. If you could suggest how to tackle this, I'd be happy to have a look. Amit On 9/24/07, Marc Espie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We do not have full i18n support. The locale stuff in the base system is not finished (I

Re: Does OpenBSD support Hebrew?

2007-09-24 Thread Christian Weisgerber
Aaron W. Hsu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am willing to guess that with something like Hebrew, OpenBSD has all the necessary support for the system, but, most common applications do not have support for the right-to-left way of writing. Well, do you consider, say, ksh and vi as part of the

Re: Does OpenBSD support Hebrew?

2007-09-24 Thread Gregg Reynolds
On 9/24/07, Christian Weisgerber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Aaron W. Hsu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am willing to guess that with something like Hebrew, OpenBSD has all the necessary support for the system, but, most common applications do not have support for the right-to-left way of

Re: Does OpenBSD support Hebrew?

2007-09-23 Thread Amit Finkler
, i.e. in /usr/share/locale. This brings me back to my original question: Does OpenBSD support Hebrew? Amit. Should work (anyway does for me with ru_RU.KOI8-R). I don't know about OpenOffice - I'm avoiding it, but AbiWord works... -- Dmitrij D. Czarkoff

Re: Does OpenBSD support Hebrew?

2007-09-23 Thread Ted Unangst
On 9/23/07, Amit Finkler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This brings me back to my original question: Does OpenBSD support Hebrew? in many cases, you want application support, and openbsd didn't write all the apps you use. suppport is a pretty broad concept.

Re: Does OpenBSD support Hebrew?

2007-09-23 Thread Christian Weisgerber
OpenBSD support Hebrew? I don't know what supporting Hebrew would entail overall, but I think it's fair to say that OpenBSD doesn't support it. Some applications running on OpenBSD may deal with it to some degree, e.g., try Firefox with the Hebrew Wikipedia. -- Christian naddy Weisgerber

Re: Does OpenBSD support Hebrew?

2007-09-23 Thread Aaron W. Hsu
I am willing to guess that with something like Hebrew, OpenBSD has all the necessary support for the system, but, most common applications do not have support for the right-to-left way of writing. There should be no problem actually getting file names into hebrew form, because that should just

Re: Does OpenBSD support Hebrew?

2007-09-23 Thread Ihar Hrachyshka
GNOME and all GTK+ programs should work with r-t-l scripts rather good.

Re: Does OpenBSD support Hebrew?

2007-09-23 Thread Amit Finkler
On 9/23/07, Ted Unangst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/23/07, Amit Finkler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This brings me back to my original question: Does OpenBSD support Hebrew? in many cases, you want application support, and openbsd didn't write all the apps you use. suppport is a pretty broad

Re: Does OpenBSD support Hebrew?

2007-09-23 Thread Marc Espie
We do not have full i18n support. The locale stuff in the base system is not finished (I know, I'm late...) Qt has its own locale system, so hebrew should work just fine in all Qt and KDE applications (including right-to-left text). Gnome and gtk also have some support. Vim supports more or

Re: Does OpenBSD support Hebrew?

2007-09-23 Thread Timothy Wilson
Hi Amit, Maybe I missed something, but you do have a Hebrew font installed on your system and in your font path right? On 24/09/2007, Marc Espie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We do not have full i18n support. The locale stuff in the base system is not finished (I know, I'm late...) Qt has its own

Does OpenBSD support Hebrew?

2007-09-22 Thread Amit Finkler
Dear subscribers/moderators, Does OpenBSD fully support Hebrew? If indeed it does, how does one make applications in X/KDE properly see/present Hebrew letters and filenames? I have already added the following two lines to my .profile: export LC_CTYPE=he_IL.UTF-8 export LC_COLLATE=he_IL.UTF-8

Re: Does OpenBSD support Hebrew?

2007-09-22 Thread Jussi Peltola
Filenames in foreign languages can sometimes be a little problematic, because Unix doesn't really have any standard on how to store them on disk - filenames are just byte arrays. Because a machine may have users with different locales this can make sharing files very difficult, so the desktop

Re: Does OpenBSD support Hebrew?

2007-09-22 Thread Amit Finkler
On 9/22/07, Jussi Peltola [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Filenames in foreign languages can sometimes be a little problematic, because Unix doesn't really have any standard on how to store them on disk - filenames are just byte arrays. Because a machine may have users with different locales this can