Hebrew in urxvt
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 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: Hebrew in urxvt
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
Re: Hebrew in urxvt
On Wednesday 04 November 2009, Diego Iastrubni wrote: whats wrong with piping text trough fribidi ? This is exactly what this perl extension is doing. It just saves you the trouble. what do you do when you need to edit text? the text cursor gets crazy under all those tests. Right. I usually just fire up kedit for these (rare) cases. --y 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 -- Yuval Hager [T] +972-77-341-4255 [...@] yha...@yhager.com signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
