Re: Howto for using Hebrew with Pango

[dov imagic weizmann ac il]

On Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 09:37:17AM +0300, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> 
> 1. The patch: I haven't followed the discussion on gtk-i18n at the time.
> Hasn't Dov's patch been accepted?

I've made some more changes that I have not sent in yet. I will send in
my new patch as soon as possible.
 
> 2. ttmkfdir
> I believe that some versions of ttfmkdir already recognise iso-10646-1 .
> Anyway, a quick hack here is:
> 
>   ttmkfdir |sed -e 's/$UNNEEDED_CHARSET/iso-10646-1/' >fonts.dir
> 
> where $UNNEEDED_CHARSET can be 'dosencoding-cp437', 'microsoft-cp1251' or
> whatever encoding you hope you won't need.
> 
> This doesn't change the number of lines in the produced fonts.dir, and
> thus it doesn't break fonts.dir 's syntax. Validating that the font is
> indeed iso-10646-1 is left for the human operator.

Good idea. I'll add this.
 
> 3. (For ivrix people) Are you satisfied with this keyboard layout
> (assuming it is optional)? Anything missing from it? Maybe rearange the
> layout?

I forgot to add the non-visible bidi characters to the layout also.
 
> 4. Once the fonts server has re-read its config it is safer to run 'xset
> fp rehash' (unless you only added fonts)

You're right. It was late when I wrote it. 8-)

Dov
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