On Fri, 12 Jul 2002, Moshe Kaminsky wrote: > Hi, > > I installed KDE 3.0.2 on a mandrake 8.2 system. When I set the language > to hebrew, all I see is small boxes instead of text. I suspect the > reason is some general problem with utf-8 on the installation, since I > also have problems in with other programs using utf-8 for hebrew (for > instance, vim, where I get boxes as well). I thought it's a font > problem, so I installed all the fonts from a windows distribution (where > I have support for hebrew utf-8), and also some other fonts I found on > the internet, but this didn't.
You need to use fonts with the encoding 'iso10646-1' (unicode) , rather than the encoding 'iso8859-8' (8-bit hebrew). Your linux distro is shipped with a number of such fonts, for instance misc-fixed. They don't look very pretty, but (espcially if not resized) you'll be able to read Hebrew texts with them. Quite important if the user interface is in Hebrew. -- Tzafrir Cohen mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
