> On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 09:25:28AM +0200, Eli Segal wrote: > > > > I don't have "patches" it just that i want to have some application with > > hebrew support > > like licq, xchat, Abiword ... > > > > > Dekel informed us that Abiword should be taken out of this list. Or > am I missing something? > > > > right now you have to compile them to get hebrew support > > > What version of Debian are you using? > > What are the correct answers? > Hebrew support doesn't come out of the box because: > 1. Debian does not have a recent enough version that have Hebrew > builtin. > 2. When compiling the package you configure it with additional > switches which let you have Hebrew while Debian does not compile > the package this way. > 3. Anything else? Please elaborate.
its number 2 > > I am also interested to know how exactly are you compiling the > packages. Please give as detailed instructions as possible. > well to get hebrew on licq, i need to compile with bidi support xchat need to be copile with hebrew-support I don't know how well Abiword works out of the box in sid but now you have to compile it with bidi, and take a long root to install the fonts for it i'm using debian sarge > > > , and i think it > > would be > > nice to have it out of the box > > > > > I agree that having Hebrew support come out of the box is desirable > and deserves all the work we can put into it. > > -- > > Shaul Karl, [EMAIL PROTECTED] e t ================================================================= 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]
