Re: official hebrew in Linux-IL mailing lists?

2002-05-17 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Fri, 17 May 2002, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: Hi, I think this issue have been debated before - but I also think it's a much better time now to discuss it.. We're Israelies, most of us use Linux as their primary OS - and almost all of the mailers supports hebrew - one way or the other.. *

Re: official hebrew in Linux-IL mailing lists?

2002-05-17 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Fri, May 17, 2002, Moshe Zadka wrote about Re: official hebrew in Linux-IL mailing lists?: On Fri, 17 May 2002, Hetz Ben Hamo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So what are the reasons for not switching our official language here from English to Hebrew (not in a day, but rather in a month-2

Re: official hebrew in Linux-IL mailing lists?

2002-05-17 Thread Moshe Zadka
On Fri, 17 May 2002, Nadav Har'El [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * mutt Works well with Hebrew if you use an appropriate editor (such as vim) and a viewer (such as bidiv). Note that editing Hebrew with Vim is a bit different than using a bidi editor, since you have to manually switch direction

Re: official hebrew in Linux-IL mailing lists?

2002-05-17 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Fri, 17 May 2002, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: Hi, I think this issue have been debated before - but I also think it's a much better time now to discuss it.. We're Israelies, most of us use Linux as their primary OS - and almost all of the mailers supports hebrew - one way or the other.. *

Re: official hebrew in Linux-IL mailing lists?

2002-05-17 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On 17 May 2002, Moshe Zadka wrote: On Fri, 17 May 2002, Nadav Har'El [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * mutt Works well with Hebrew if you use an appropriate editor (such as vim) and a viewer (such as bidiv). Note that editing Hebrew with Vim is a bit different than using a bidi editor,

linux forums in Israerl [was: Re: Nana Linux forum]

2002-05-17 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Fri, 17 May 2002, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: Hi people, I don't know if Dvir has written about it - but Nana got a special Linux forum - you can go there with this URL: http://forums.nana.co.il/forum.asp?id=2092 What browsers is it tested with? Is anybody able to read/post from linux to: *

Re: Upgrading to glibc-2.2 on RH62

2002-05-17 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Fri, 17 May 2002, Isaac Aaron wrote: Hi I'd like to install glibc 2.2 from an RPM using rpm -i --force. Reason: to be able to install software pre-compiled for RH7.X (where glibc is the only dep that doesn't match). Does anyone know what (bad) implications might be? using --force is a

Re: official hebrew in Linux-IL mailing lists?

2002-05-17 Thread Gabor Szabo
Nadav Har'El wrote: How about creating a Hebrew mailing list in addition to this one, and see how it picks up? Even though I hardly write anything in Hebrew and it would be more difficult for me to read in Hebrew than in English I think it would be extreamly importan for the Open Source

Re: linux forums in Israerl [was: Re: Nana Linux forum]

2002-05-17 Thread Tal Peer
On Fri, 17 May 2002, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: Hi people, I don't know if Dvir has written about it - but Nana got a special Linux forum - you can go there with this URL: http://forums.nana.co.il/forum.asp?id=2092 What browsers is it tested with? Is anybody able to read/post from linux to:

Re: official hebrew in Linux-IL mailing lists?

2002-05-17 Thread Moshe Zadka
On Fri, 17 May 2002, Tzafrir Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 3. I suggest to start with the gnubies list, and see how it goes there. Alternatively, maybe setup a seperate list (r sublist? des listar support this notion?) Oh, yeah, good idea. Before you can read the list archives,

Re: official hebrew in Linux-IL mailing lists?

2002-05-17 Thread Moshe Zadka
On Fri, 17 May 2002, Tzafrir Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What pager and editor do you use, then? nvi and less. In what environment do you normally work? (X/remote shell/console? x: what desktop? remote shell: what termianl?) X: my own wm (http://wm.zadka.com), with plain xterm Console:

RE: official hebrew in Linux-IL mailing lists?

2002-05-17 Thread Tzahi Fadida
I don't think its a technical issue, more like a cultural issue. I am not certain that all the list members can read Hebrew, so switching to Hebrew, or allowing for Hebrew words into mails, will only frustrate those members. The difficulty in expressing yourself in Hebrew, is one of these main

Re: linux forums in Israerl [was: Re: Nana Linux forum]

2002-05-17 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
What browsers is it tested with? I tested Mozilla 1.0RC2 and Konqueror from KDE 3 CVS - both works pretty well with Nana. Ynet and tapuz works for me, and I think Walla guides.co.il too - but I haven't tested them Can anybody comment on the relevancy of those forums? e.g: is any f them a

Re: Upgrading to glibc-2.2 on RH62

2002-05-17 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
(I didn't get the first email..) On Friday 17 May 2002 09:34, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Fri, 17 May 2002, Isaac Aaron wrote: Hi I'd like to install glibc 2.2 from an RPM using rpm -i --force. Reason: to be able to install software pre-compiled for RH7.X (where glibc is the only dep that

RE: linux forums in Israerl [was: Re: Nana Linux forum]

2002-05-17 Thread Dvir Volk
Which of them require registration for posting (something that personally annoys me) Nana does allow me to correct you, we DO NOT REQUIRE REGISTRATION in order to post on Nana (we used to, but not since last month). all you have to do is agree to a disclaimer (stating you won't

Re: Upgrading to glibc-2.2 on RH62

2002-05-17 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Isaac Aaron [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'd like to install glibc 2.2 from an RPM using rpm -i --force. Reason: to be able to install software pre-compiled for RH7.X (where glibc is the only dep that doesn't match). Does anyone know what (bad) implications might be? It does not sound like

Re: official hebrew in Linux-IL mailing lists?

2002-05-17 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Hetz Ben Hamo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: We're Israelies, most of us use Linux as their primary OS - and almost all of the mailers supports hebrew - one way or the other.. a very short list of mailers snipped The list is a lng way from being exhaustive, and I don't think it's a good idea

Re: linux forums in Israerl [was: Re: Nana Linux forum]

2002-05-17 Thread Yotam Rubin
On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 01:37:28PM +0200, Dvir Volk wrote: [big snip] It's generally considered rude to send Outlook specific files (winmail.dat) to a Linux list, or almost any other public mailing list, especially when its ~5 times larger than the actual message. Perhaps listar should be

Re: official hebrew in Linux-IL mailing lists?

2002-05-17 Thread Amir Hardon
You must remember this is an israeli linux group. I think we must use or at least try to use Hebrew. For technical terms we can use English or even better, define those terms in Hebrew, this will be part of the linux localization process. I'm sure that for many members, it will be more

Re: official hebrew in Linux-IL mailing lists?

2002-05-17 Thread Diego Iastrubni
éàììä ÷ãéîä!! On Friday 17 May 2002 05:05, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: Hi, I think this issue have been debated before - but I also think it's a much better time now to discuss it.. We're Israelies, most of us use Linux as their primary OS - and almost all of the mailers supports hebrew - one way

Re: official hebrew in Linux-IL mailing lists?

2002-05-17 Thread Moshe Zadka
On Fri, 17 May 2002, Amir Hardon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You must remember this is an israeli linux group. So what? I think we must use or at least try to use Hebrew. Why? For technical terms we can use English or even better, define those terms in Hebrew, this will be part of the

Re: official hebrew in Linux-IL mailing lists?

2002-05-17 Thread Moshe Zadka
On Fri, 17 May 2002, Diego Iastrubni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: éàììä ÷ãéîä!! Great. This is the only benefit of discussions like that -- people jumping the gun and sending e-mail lots of people can't read. Get a clue, currently, sending Hebrew e-mail to Linux-IL is discouraged. .

Re: Nana Linux forum

2002-05-17 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Marc, As you may know - I do not own Nana. I published Nana's new Linux forum, as a one time notification for people that if they want to come and help with answering the people - then thats nice... Take care, Hetz Why the fuck are you advertising YOUR forum on the list? Not nice... M

Re: official hebrew in Linux-IL mailing lists?

2002-05-17 Thread Orna Agmon
On Fri, 17 May 2002, Shlomi Fish wrote: On Fri, 17 May 2002, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: * Pine - hpine exists for quite a long time and you can use it to read/write hebrew.. I use the pine that is present on the Technion servers. AFAIK, neither t2 nor vipe carry hebpine. In any case, I'm

Re: official hebrew in Linux-IL mailing lists?

2002-05-17 Thread Diego Iastrubni
moshe: the big question is how many people could not read that sentence. if the answer is most, then linux-il is not hebrew ready. btw it is utf8. - diego On Friday 17 May 2002 16:05, Moshe Zadka wrote: On Fri, 17 May 2002, Diego Iastrubni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: éàììä ÷ãéîä!! Great.

Re: official hebrew in Linux-IL mailing lists?

2002-05-17 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 04:32:37PM +0300, Diego Iastrubni wrote: moshe: the big question is how many people could not read that sentence. if the answer is most, then linux-il is not hebrew ready. btw it is utf8. Diego: The big question, is how many of the people who actually contribute to

slightly of: kde-klingon

2002-05-17 Thread Diego Iastrubni
hi all I just wanted to let everybody know that the kde project has now opened a new mailing list: [kde-klingon]. well not actually kde, since it's not officially recognized, but anyway... it should be interesting for all trackies/trackers... [EMAIL PROTECTED] - diego -- Get hold of

Re: official hebrew in Linux-IL mailing lists?

2002-05-17 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Fri, May 17, 2002, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote about Re: official hebrew in Linux-IL mailing lists?: FWIW, I immediately delete hebrew postings. If it's important enough to be said, it's important enough to be said in english. If he knew of this thread, Eli'ezer Ben-Yehuda (are you a relative

error compiling glibc-2.2.2

2002-05-17 Thread Eliran
Hello ! I'm trying to install glibc-2.2.2 on an LFS partition (/mnt/lfs), the error I get is: error findlocale.c: In function `_nl_find_locale': findlocale.c:193: Internal compiler error in gen_lowpart, at emit-rtl.c:1081 Please submit a full bug report. See

Re: official hebrew in Linux-IL mailing lists?

2002-05-17 Thread Erez Doron
I can't read hebrew with my mail client can someone translate ? erez. Diego Iastrubni wrote: éàììä ÷ãéîä!! On Friday 17 May 2002 05:05, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: Hi, I think this issue have been debated before - but I also think it's a much better time now to discuss it.. We're

Re: official hebrew in Linux-IL mailing lists?

2002-05-17 Thread Diego Iastrubni
On Friday 17 May 2002 17:43, Amir Sela wrote: One point should be taken to mind though : It's my experience, and I'm sure a lot of you will agree, that people that prefer posting in hebrew are usually newbies. And as such, they don't belong in this list simply because of the nature of the

Re: official hebrew in Linux-IL mailing lists?

2002-05-17 Thread Eliran
I think the hebrew subject is more gnubies-il specific. Why won't we offer it to them ? Just an idea, Eliran. On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 05:43:43PM +0300, Amir Sela wrote: Anyway, to make myself clear: I'll vote for an additional Hebrew list, but for keeping also the existing English list.

Hebrew in Linux-IL (was: Re: slightly of: kde-klingon)

2002-05-17 Thread Omer Zak
This is the perfect solution to the language problem of the Linux-IL mailing list! Let's mandate that starting from May 23th, 2002, time 20:30:40, all E-mail going via the Linux-IL mailing list must be written in Klingon, using Canaanite (old Hebrew) letters. :-)

Re: Hebrew in Linux-IL (was: Re: slightly of: kde-klingon)

2002-05-17 Thread Erez Doron
sounds good ;-) what encoding is knaanite ? where could i get such fonts ? eli, do you have knaanite ttf-fonts ? where do i get a klingon spell checker ? erez. On Friday 17 May 2002 18:25, Omer Zak wrote: This is the perfect solution to the language problem of the Linux-IL mailing list!

RE: official hebrew in Linux-IL mailing lists?

2002-05-17 Thread Tzahi Fadida
I don't believe that the Hebrew language is connected to being a newbie or not. I do believe however that it is connected to the size of some individuals ego. I believe nadav mentioned that until recently the technion made them use Hebrew in their thesis. Do you actually clame that these people

Re: official hebrew in Linux-IL mailing lists?

2002-05-17 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Fri, 17 May 2002, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: 4. I hope that the archive will supprt on-the-fly conversin of the messages to UTF-8. When I search the messages archive I don't want to care what was theoriginal charset. I believe that in Russian the problem of encoding is even more severe

Re: Hebrew in Linux-IL (was: Re: slightly of: kde-klingon)

2002-05-17 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Fri, 17 May 2002, Erez Doron wrote: sounds good ;-) what encoding is knaanite ? where could i get such fonts ? eli, do you have knaanite ttf-fonts ? where do i get a klingon spell checker ? Klingon is not traditionally written in the Kanaanite Alphabet. So even if you find one,

Re: official hebrew in Linux-IL mailing lists?

2002-05-17 Thread Amir Sela
On Friday 17 May 2002 19:50, Tzahi Fadida wrote: I don't believe that the Hebrew language is connected to being a newbie or not. I do believe however that it is connected to the size of some individuals ego. I believe nadav mentioned that until recently the technion made them use Hebrew in

Re: official hebrew in Linux-IL mailing lists?

2002-05-17 Thread Moshe Zadka
On Fri, 17 May 2002, Diego Iastrubni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the big question is how many people could not read that sentence. if the answer is most, then linux-il is not hebrew ready. btw it is utf8. No, the big question is why you thought it was a good idea to disregard the official

Re: official hebrew in Linux-IL mailing lists?

2002-05-17 Thread Moshe Zadka
On Fri, 17 May 2002, Nadav Har'El [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If he knew of this thread, Eli'ezer Ben-Yehuda (are you a relative of his? :)) would be turning in his grave :( Yes. Because Eli'ezer didn't whine. He went out there and wrote patches. I'm hope I'm not wasting my breath here, but

Re: official hebrew in Linux-IL mailing lists?

2002-05-17 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Fri, 17 May 2002, Orna Agmon wrote: On Fri, 17 May 2002, Shlomi Fish wrote: On Fri, 17 May 2002, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: * Pine - hpine exists for quite a long time and you can use it to read/write hebrew.. I use the pine that is present on the Technion servers. AFAIK, neither

Re: official hebrew in Linux-IL mailing lists?

2002-05-17 Thread Erez Doron
well, the issue is not if i can apply the turkish patch or not, etc ... for example: i have linux installed on my ipaq. i can not use kde nor mozilla on my ipaq ( not enough mem, not enough flash, screen too small) and the only mail client i have support only ... surprise: english and there are

Re: official hebrew in Linux-IL mailing lists?

2002-05-17 Thread Gilad Ben-Yossef
On Fri, 2002-05-17 at 05:05, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: So what are the reasons for not switching our official language here from English to Hebrew (not in a day, but rather in a month-2 months time period)? Please reply and explain your position... I have a simple suggestion: This email list

RE: official hebrew in Linux-IL mailing lists?

2002-05-17 Thread Tzahi Fadida
-Original Message- From: Amir Sela [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 17, 2002 6:17 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Linux-IL Mailing List Subject: Re: official hebrew in Linux-IL mailing lists? On Friday 17 May 2002 19:50, Tzahi Fadida wrote: I don't believe that the

Re: official hebrew in Linux-IL mailing lists?

2002-05-17 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On 17 May 2002, Erez Doron wrote: well, the issue is not if i can apply the turkish patch or not, etc ... for example: i have linux installed on my ipaq. i can not use kde nor mozilla on my ipaq ( not enough mem, not enough flash, screen too small) and the only mail client i have support

RE: official hebrew in Linux-IL mailing lists?

2002-05-17 Thread Tzahi Fadida
On the same wave length, maybe we should instead open a web forum with this list name. this way, everyone will be able to see the encoding, and the list itself won't be changed. In addition, we can add to the mailing list signature (which is at the end of each email on these mailing list) the

RE: official hebrew in Linux-IL mailing lists?

2002-05-17 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Fri, 17 May 2002, Tzahi Fadida wrote: On the same wave length, maybe we should instead open a web forum with this list name. this way, everyone will be able to see the encoding, and the list itself won't be changed. In addition, we can add to the mailing list signature (which is at the

Re: error compiling glibc-2.2.2

2002-05-17 Thread Amir Hardon
Eliran, First of all I'm a member of the lfs-support list and haven't seen you message there... are you sure it was sent? Almost always the guys in the lfs-support list know's how to help, and won't stop trying until you solved your problem. So maybe re send a message to there... I instaled my

RE: official hebrew in Linux-IL mailing lists?

2002-05-17 Thread Tzahi Fadida
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Tzafrir Cohen Sent: Friday, May 17, 2002 9:10 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Gilad Ben-Yossef; Linux-IL mailing list Subject: RE: official hebrew in Linux-IL mailing lists? On Fri, 17 May 2002,

Re: official hebrew in Linux-IL mailing lists?

2002-05-17 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Fri, 17 May 2002, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: The big question, is how many of the people who actually contribute to the list could not and would not read the above sentance. As it appears that the answer is most of them!, please refrain from posting hebrew. FWIW, I immediately delete hebrew

Re: official hebrew in Linux-IL mailing lists?

2002-05-17 Thread Moshe Zadka
On Fri, 17 May 2002, Tzafrir Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hebrew fonts: Generally avaialble anywhere: But the xterms must be specifically configured. For example, because my window manager is hard-wired to start an xterm 80x25 on left-button click, this means I'll have to reconfigure it.

Re: official hebrew in Linux-IL mailing lists?

2002-05-17 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On 17 May 2002, Moshe Zadka wrote: On Fri, 17 May 2002, Tzafrir Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hebrew fonts: Generally avaialble anywhere: But the xterms must be specifically configured. For example, because my window manager is hard-wired to start an xterm 80x25 on left-button

Re: official hebrew in Linux-IL mailing lists?

2002-05-17 Thread Amir Sela
I think you should cool it as well, and if you don't want to converse with me, i suggest you simply don't reply to my posts. A mailing list is STILL composed out of personal postings, which people reply to. So if you reply to my words, you reply to me. And whatever you say, bringing in jewish

Re: official hebrew in Linux-IL mailing lists?

2002-05-17 Thread Matan Ziv-Av
Hi, I have detailed replies for some of your whines, but those trees might hide the forest: There is absolutely no sense in having a local list not in Hebrew. If you suggest to any Linux user group in Japan, Sweden, Germany, or any other non-english-speaking language that the main mailing list

Re: official hebrew in Linux-IL mailing lists?

2002-05-17 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Fri, May 17, 2002, Moshe Zadka wrote about Re: official hebrew in Linux-IL mailing lists?: On Fri, 17 May 2002, Nadav Har'El [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If he knew of this thread, Eli'ezer Ben-Yehuda (are you a relative of his? :)) would be turning in his grave :( Yes. Because Eli'ezer