Hi
The following are a number of issues I have with Hebrew in Knoppix that
I'd
like some help in checking:
I use a slightly modified version of knoppix 3.3 beta. But what I write
should apply to the original version as well.
unlike the text of cheatsheet.txt (and what you read when you press F2)
there is a boot-time option 'lang=he' which tries to do something sensible
for Hebrew. However the keyboard settings there are:
KEYBOARD="il"
XKEYBOARD="il"
KDEKEYBOARD="il"
(Originally in /etc/rcS.d/S00knoppix-autoconfig , which puts them in
the file /etc/sysconfig/keyboard (and yes: I realise this should be
/etc/defaults))
I'm not sure exactly what KDEKEYBOARD is for. It is used for something
in the initialization of KDE. I think it should have a value of the
sort of "us,il" or "us il", but I haven't yet checked it.
XKEYBOARD should definetly have the value "us,il". It seems to only
have effect on non-kde desktops, though.
KEYBOARD affects the console keyboard. "il" seems safe, but somewhat
unintuitive. "il-heb" may be better. See
/usr/share/keymaps/i386/qwerty/il.gz
/usr/share/keymaps/i386/qwerty/il-heb.gz
(Also on debian).
A reminder: if you happen to get stuck on X with only a Hebrew
keyboard, a quick-fix is to press ctrl-alt-F1 to get to a console
(where X mapping doesn't apply), login as your user ('su - knoppix' in
this case) , and run 'setxkbmap -display :0 us,il' .
Anybody tried looking at this KDEKEYBOARD thing?
Also: any idea why the default locales package that comes with knoppix
does not create he_IL.UTF-8 (it does create a he_IL of charset
ISO-8859-8 , and quite a few UTF-8 locales). /etc/locales.gen seems to
be auto-generated.
--
Tzafrir Cohen
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http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir
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