Ok, I found the problem with the kind help of the Ivrix mailing list guys.
The problem was that the locales were not installed (none of them). I
installed the locales and presto - everything started to work. Thanks
for everyone here for helping out.
Shachar
Dmitry Timoshkov wrote:
>"Shachar Shemesh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>>I typed a Hebrew word, followed by a english one (you can also see the
>>keys used to tell kxdb to switch keyboard layouts). I am guessing that X
>>needs some global config to make Hebrew work, but I don't know what or
>>where it is. Maybe I need to set LC_CTYPE before running the X server?
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>>Current locale: C
>>XLocaleOfIM: C
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>Here is an answer (two lines above).
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>I have no a slightest idea how Mozilla and Kedit manage to work. It seems
>they use some library which does all hard work for them. But as you can see
>XFree86 APIs use "C" locale for Input Method and apparently for keyboard
>translation too. C run-time uses "C" locale as well, therefore all tools
>which use only standard C library APIs (sorting, string comparing, etc.)
>will not work correctly for you either.
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>And yes, could you please try to set LC_CTYPE and LANG to something sensible,
>perhaps 'he_IL', or 'he_HE', or 'iw_IL', or 'iw_HE'? I don't know what value
>will work in your envirinment, sorry. You should experiment a bit.
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>By the way, what distribution are you using? Glibc? XFree86 (mentioned 4.2.0)?
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