Thanks Shlomi, "Console" looks nice, the text is crisp and clear and it has many features.
However, I couldn't find any mention of "Encoding" in either the menus, buttons, "Help" or the configuration XML file. Did you (or anybody else) ever _actually_ used it to display Hebrew and/or UTF-8 encoded text? Regards, Meir -----Original Message----- From: perl-boun...@perl.org.il [mailto:perl-boun...@perl.org.il] On Behalf Of Shlomi Fish Sent: Sunday, July 11, 2010 8:41 PM To: perl@perl.org.il Cc: Gaal Yahas Subject: Re: [Israel.pm] Hebrew in the command window On Sunday 11 Jul 2010 20:18:51 Gaal Yahas wrote: > In Linux, UTF-8 in the default locale has become more and more popular, and > most terminal emulators support it. You should not see complete gibberish. > But garbling and reverse text are not surprising. Some emulators bidi out > of the box, and most don't. IIRC mlterm does. > > I haven't done this stuff on Windows in a while. Who is your audience? How > much of your environment are you willing to fool around with? With some > setup you can cook up a local PuTTY that talks to cygwin on localhost (I > think you'll find info about this if you plug these three keywords into a > search engine). PuTTY is by far a better terminal program than the DOS box, > and even has bidi on some versions. You will want to control your codepage > "translation" though. > > Hope this helps. > There's also http://sourceforge.net/projects/console/ which is very nice: <<< Console is a Windows console window enhancement. Console features include: multiple tabs, text editor-like text selection, different background types, alpha and color-key transparency, configurable font, different window styles >>> Regards, Shlomi Fish -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Funny Anti-Terrorism Story - http://shlom.in/enemy God considered inflicting XSLT as the tenth plague of Egypt, but then decided against it because he thought it would be too evil. Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . _______________________________________________ Perl mailing list Perl@perl.org.il http://mail.perl.org.il/mailman/listinfo/perl _______________________________________________ Perl mailing list Perl@perl.org.il http://mail.perl.org.il/mailman/listinfo/perl
