whats wrong with piping text trough fribidi ? what do you do when you need to edit text? the text cursor gets crazy under all those tests.
On Wednesday 04 November 2009 17:51:05 Yuval Hager wrote: > I've recently switched from Konsole to urxvt. Konsole has great bidi > support, which allows one to switch from logical to visual text > representation at the click of a button. > > I was missing bidi support in urxvt (and virtually every other terminal I > tried. I was told to try mlterm, but I never got to it, as it does not look > so exciting. > > I just found a way to view Hebrew characters correctly in urxvt, and wanted > to share. > urxvt supports perl extensions, so here's what you need to do: > 0) you do have the culmus fonts installed, don't you? > 1) install Text::Bidi. run 'cpan' and then 'install Text::Bidi'. > 2) install the perl bidi extension by Moshe Kamensky from > http://lists.schmorp.de/pipermail/rxvt-unicode/2006q3/000321.html. It > appears at the end of his email, copy that to a file and place it > under '/usr/lib/urxvt/perl'. Name it 'bidi'. > 3) run urxvt as folllows: > $ urxvt -fn 'xft:terminus-12,xft:comix no2 clm' -pe bidi > > this works beautifully, without even the need to click needed in Konsole. I > am not editing files in Hebrew, just need to see an occasional Hebrew file > name, or Hebrew logs. > > Cheers, > > --yuval > _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
