On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 12:40:20AM +0300, Peter wrote:
> 
> I hate GUIs that do things behind my back. I prefer to switch by hand. 
> Please see the attached script. I have been using it for years, it is 
> started from xinit. It switches per-display, as I need it to. In each 
> language, the normal Ralt-Shift switches to the alternate language, the 
> default being always us (can't type commands in Hebrew usually, you 
> know). Bugs: No indicator for the current encoding. Hint: use 
> Unicode-Hebrew for OpenOffice and Mozilla, ISO for terminals unless 
> everything is set up for unicode on your machine. 

What is "ISO" Hebrew? Do you mean mapping to plain values of ISO-8859-8
and hoping that the ancint X app will just take the inpput untranslated?

With some basic locale setting of LC_TYPE to UTF-8 ot ISO-8859-8 this is
not needed. I suspect non of the OS-es you mentioned really it.

> The script is known to 
> work with Debian, Slackware, NetBSD (with mods), Knoppix at least.
> 
> enjoy,
> Peter

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