On Mon, 23 Apr 2007 16:24:17 Yedidyah Bar-David wrote:
>
> On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 02:41:51PM +0300, Ehud Karni wrote:
> >
> > I prefer the file name to be in ISO-8859-8 (8 bits) and not UTF-8.
> > Then I can see the Hebrew in Emacs and xterm, but not in Gnome or KDE
>
> Any reason not to use utf-8 with xterm/emacs? I admit I do not use emacs
> so I do not know how comfortable it is, but in xterm/vim it's fine, tab
> completion and everything.
The real problem is that you can't have both ISO-8859-8 (8 bit Hebrew)
and UTF-8 Hebrew displayed correctly together. My company have a LOT of
files encoded in ISO-8859-8 and it won't be changed in the near (and,
I believe, also in the far[1]) future. I use many simple UNIX tools (
cat, more, sed, etc.) to manipulate and view file names and content, on
both X and tty terminals. So, ISO-8859-8 it is.
Ehud.
[1] Unless the company somehow becomes international and has to have
many languages simultaneously, and even then, I think they will
use fixed wide characters (16 bits) and not UTF-8.
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