Re: Howto for using Hebrew with Pango

[Uri David Akavia <uridavid netvision net il>]

This looks very cool.
About the layout - don't you think it will be preferable to have the
nikud where it is in Windows (that is on the top row of the keyboard)?
This way it might be available as a single, easy to use line of Nikud.

Uri David Akavia

On Tue, 2001-09-11 at 13:07, dov imagic weizmann ac il wrote:
> 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
> > 
> > -- 
> > Tzafrir Cohen
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> > http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir
> > 
> 
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