Keyboard and font problems in Linux and NT

From: Efraim Yawitz (fyawitz@actcom.co.il)
Date: Thu Jul 04 2002 - 08:30:34 EDT

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    Hi!

            I'm writing this after putting a lot of time and reading into
    trying to get Hebrew fonts and keymappings to work with
    abiword-1.0.1. Actually, the problem in Linux is with the fonts, and in
    NT it is with the keyboard.
            Under Linux, I've set up the ISO-8859-8 directory under
    $ABIWORD_HOME/fonts, and put in a font, and created fonts.dir,
    fonts.alias, and fonts.scale. I also tried to create a locale called
    heb.ISO-8859-8 with localedef, but it named it heb.iso88598 (lower case,
    no hyphens.) I symlinked this directory to ISO88598, so I no longer get a
    gdk warning of 'locale not supported by C library', but I get 'locale not
    supported by Xlib' and the program crashes.
            Under Windows NT 4.0, the fonts work easily, but I haven't gotten
    the Hebrew keyboard to work. A Hebrew keyboard layout didn't come with my
    installation, so after some searching on the web, I found a shareware
    program called KLM which allows modifying the keymap. I succeeded in
    editing a DLL (which I'm including) to map the keys according to
    ISO-8859-8, i.e. to 0xE0-0xFA, and in notepad, I am able to type in Hebrew
    just fine. In abiword (as well as WordPad), though, all I get is question
    marks (?????). I imagine this all has something to do with Unicode, etc.,
    but maybe someone can tell me what I have to do to make it work. I
    realize this is really a Windows issue as opposed to a real abiword issue,
    but maybe someone has an idea anyway.

    Thanks very much,

    Ephraim Yawitz



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