Re: A simple question about hebrew in terminal
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 09:32:34AM +0300, Dan Shimshoni wrote: Hello, I have support in hebrew on my Linux desktop (Fedora 10). I can switch to hebrew with the keyboard indicator and it works. Say I want to perform a simple operation in terminal: rename a file named a.txt to קובץ.txt I type: mv a.txt and then, when I type: ק and then ו and then ב and then ץ it shows: ץבוק I can of course write the letters in reverse order, but this is not comfortable to do it for each rename operation. Why not use tab completion? -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il || a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.org.il || best ICQ# 16849754 || friend ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: A simple question about hebrew in terminal
Herouth Maoz wrote: Quoting Dan Shimshoni danshi...@gmail.com: and if you show it in a BiDi aware application (say, konqueror or whatever file explorer you use), it will show properly. It is true that if I try to browse the contents of this directory with mozilla for example, it shows indeed : File:קובץ.a However, when I try to look at the contents of that directory using midnight commander, it shows garbage. something like: ץ???ק.a And it is important for me to view the contents of directories with hebrew file names properly with midnight commander as it is my daily file management app. seems that midnight commander has an encoding rather than BiDi issue. You should look for a way to set up its encoding, to be aware of UTF-8 file names. Not all MC versions with the the same version number are born equal. Some distros such as RH went as far as writing their own patches to MC for UTF-8 support and better looks. -- Sincerely yours, Michael Vasiliev ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
A simple question about hebrew in terminal
Hello, I have support in hebrew on my Linux desktop (Fedora 10). I can switch to hebrew with the keyboard indicator and it works. Say I want to perform a simple operation in terminal: rename a file named a.txt to קובץ.txt I type: mv a.txt and then, when I type: ק and then ו and then ב and then ץ it shows: ץבוק I can of course write the letters in reverse order, but this is not comfortable to do it for each rename operation. Is there a way to solve this ? If I am not wrong I heard about some BIDI support, but it seems to me that this BIDI support is for some specific word processing/editors. I an talking about the gnome-terminal. Rgs, D ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: A simple question about hebrew in terminal
Quoting Dan Shimshoni danshi...@gmail.com: Hello, I have support in hebrew on my Linux desktop (Fedora 10). I can switch to hebrew with the keyboard indicator and it works. Say I want to perform a simple operation in terminal: rename a file named a.txt to קובץ.txt I type: mv a.txt and then, when I type: ק and then ו and then ב and then ץ it shows: ץבוק I can of course write the letters in reverse order, but this is not comfortable to do it for each rename operation. Is there a way to solve this ? If I am not wrong I heard about some BIDI support, but it seems to me that this BIDI support is for some specific word processing/editors. I an talking about the gnome-terminal. First, I wouldn't worry about it. The name of the file is OK - the letters are entered into the directory in the correct order, and if you show it in a BiDi aware application (say, konqueror or whatever file explorer you use), it will show properly. There are terminal applications that support BiDi. This is usually not a very good idea because it tends to confuse issues with the cursor and mess up curses-based applications. Personally, I actually prefer to work in non BiDi aware apps to enter data (e.g. Write HTML or localization files or whatnot). It's easier to tell which character is the 10th from the quote etc. even in a mixed string. ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: A simple question about hebrew in terminal
and if you show it in a BiDi aware application (say, konqueror or whatever file explorer you use), it will show properly. It is true that if I try to browse the contents of this directory with mozilla for example, it shows indeed : File:קובץ.a However, when I try to look at the contents of that directory using midnight commander, it shows garbage. something like: ץ???ק.a And it is important for me to view the contents of directories with hebrew file names properly with midnight commander as it is my daily file management app. Any ideas? ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: A simple question about hebrew in terminal
Quoting Dan Shimshoni danshi...@gmail.com: and if you show it in a BiDi aware application (say, konqueror or whatever file explorer you use), it will show properly. It is true that if I try to browse the contents of this directory with mozilla for example, it shows indeed : File:קובץ.a However, when I try to look at the contents of that directory using midnight commander, it shows garbage. something like: ץ???ק.a And it is important for me to view the contents of directories with hebrew file names properly with midnight commander as it is my daily file management app. seems that midnight commander has an encoding rather than BiDi issue. You should look for a way to set up its encoding, to be aware of UTF-8 file names. Herouth ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
