Hi

I'm in the process of re-trying fvwm.

I noticed that the recent development version claims to have some
"internationalization" features. 

It turns out that those include bidi support and UTF-8 support. I
haven't seen anything in the decs regarding arabic shaping, though.

"Hebrew" appears mainly in window titles, and it is one of the small
thins that currently bother me with my current IceWM setup. 
But this will also allow a Hebrew translation, to make fvwm 
Hebrew-Users-Friendly :-p

It took some work to override the default latin1 fonts. I later realised
that it would help to run:

  grep Font .fvwm/* .fvwm/.fvwm2rc

When you run fvwm and have no fvwm config at all: no .fvwm/ and no
fvwm2rc , you'll be presented with a minimal configuration. Click the
mouse to get a menu that includes some "setup" forms. 

In case you have a UTF-8 locale and those forms look like a mess, try
running fvwm temporarily with a C locale (LC_CTYPE). 

I still have not figured how to make Xft support work: I built fvwm 
with Xft support. I have a RedHat 7.3 system, and it has Xft1. I have 
no idea it is supposed to work, and so far I failed to make it work.
Thus I currently stick with misc-fixed, as this is basically the only
decent Hebrew font I have of unicode encoding.

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