Shalom Matan, I'd like to thank you for the efforts to bring Hebrew to the 770. Up until recently I though I am the only soul in Israel carrying a 770 around... ;-)
I am quite a newbie to all of this, so most of what you say sound gibberish to me :-) All I found was the Hebrew Locale package in the Maemo Garage. I've installed it, but can't figure out what changed, if anything changed at all... I'd be very grateful for some kind of a detailed HOWTO for enabling / using Hebrew on the 770. Some step-by-step instructions I can follow. All I need is to see Hebrew for Web sites. I tried minimo with YNet and all I got was a bunch of squares (encoding set to UTF-8). Let me know how can I help - you do the coding and I'll phrase the HOWTO perhaps? Thanks! On 2/20/07, Matan Ziv-Av <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Sun, 18 Feb 2007, Amichai Rotman wrote: > Hi All, > > I own a Nokia 770 Internet Tablet (A.K.A. N770). > > I wonder - any of own / know of someone who owns one too? I sent this to this list a few months ago: Maybe it is time to start an official project for hebrew on the 770. A project manager is needed. I did some work on hebrew for 770, current status description follows. Fonts: The easiest way is to simply add ttf fonts with hebrew to /home/user/.fonts. I added both ms fonts and culmus. This helps in application that let you select fonts, but not in ones that use the default fonts. The included nokia fonts do not include hebrew glyph, which is a problem with lots of applications. I used fontforge to copy glyphs from other fonts to nokia fonts, and this allows using hebrew in all applications. The problem is that those fonts are not redistributable. A better solution is to take the URW fonts, and edit them to have the nokia fonts names (so that they work with all themes, etc.). Maybe it's possible to uses aliasing in fontconfig, but I don't know that. Hebrew browsing: * included Opera has no RTL support. With hacked fonts it displays hebrew pages, but reversed. * minimo works OK, does not need hacked fonts, but it only works on UTF-8 encoded pages. ISO-8859-8/windows-1255 pages are displayed with latin letters for some reason. I hacked privoxy (running on the 770) so that it can translate pages from 8859-8 to UTF-8. * a hacked (by me) version of links-2.1 supports hebrew, but it is far from perfect. Input: * I added a hebrew keyboard. It works in xterm and most applications, but not in minimo, for some reason. In my testing, other 2 byte characters were not accepted by minimo as well. My files (links, keyboard) are avaialable at http://www.arava.co.il/matan/770/ -- Matan Ziv-Av. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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