On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 11:10:35AM +0300, Christoph Bugel wrote: > On 2003-06-19 Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 11:57:52AM +0300, Christoph Bugel wrote: > > > > > Naturally, I wanted to write my email in *hebrew*. I must > > > admit that I didn't know how to do this in my favorite email > > > client: xterm+mutt+vim, > > > > Need help? > > > > (If so: in what environment do you work, and what is the output of > > 'locale'?) > > Thanks, I got some tips from Dan Kenigsberg and now I have the basic > stuff working :) Thanks! > > summary: > > - I use xterm -fn 8x13. (well actually, I added XTerm*font1: heb8x13 > to my .Xresources, and now when I choose the xterm 'Unreadable' > font from the xterm menu, I get the hebrew font :)
XTerm*fontMenu*font1*Label: ReadableHebrew > - I recompiled vim with rightleft support > - I added LESSCHARSET=latin1 to my environment (otherwise less > refused to show the non-ascii characters) Because you refuse to let your environment include Hebrew characters. > - for some reason I had ":set encoding=utf8" in my .vimrc -- had to > remove that for vim to show hebrew ... > - added a mapping in vim: map <F12> :set invrl invhk > - added another mapping to filter all vim text through bidiv.. > - addded to .muttrc set charset="iso-8859-8-i" > > BTW, my locale is still "C" and the above works fine. Is there a > good reason to chanmge it to something else? How about typing Hebrew in anything but vim? (Actually, with most program nowadays: mozilla, QT/KDE >= 2, gtk >=2, OpenOffice, this is no longer an issue. Still Hebrew environment vars are a good hint to sane programs defaults, e.g: fonts of gtk programs) -- Tzafrir Cohen +---------------------------+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best friend| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +---------------------------+ ================================================================= 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]
