Dear subscribers/moderators,
Does OpenBSD fully support Hebrew? If indeed it does, how does one make

applications in X/KDE properly see/present Hebrew letters and filenames?
I have already added the following two lines to my .profile:
export LC_CTYPE=he_IL.UTF-8

export LC_COLLATE=he_IL.UTF-8
and this made it possible to show Hebrew filenames under normal KDE

applications properly. However, when I tried opening an OpenOffice

files, for example, which had Hebrew letters in it, it all appeared

meshed and garbled or just blanks instead of letters.
Amit.

We do not have full i18n support. The locale stuff in the base system

is not finished (I know, I'm late...)
Qt has its own locale system, so hebrew should work just fine in all

Qt and KDE applications (including right-to-left text).
Gnome and gtk also have some support. 
Vim supports more or less every script including hebrew.
I don't know if there's any issue with input, I'm not familiar with

hebrew, and I've only been working with japanese input.
There might be some tweak to help OpenOffice. Does OpenOffice support

hebrew on some platforms ? If it does, it might make sense to try to

figure out the configuration differences.

Marc,
Hebrew works fine on openoffice with all the major linux

distributions. If you could suggest how to tackle this, I'd be happy

to have a look.
Amit

Hi Amit,

Maybe I missed something, but you do have a Hebrew font installed on

your system and in your font path right?

Filenames in foreign languages can sometimes be a little problematic,

because Unix doesn't really have any standard on how to store them on

disk - filenames are just byte arrays. Because a machine may have users

with different locales this can make sharing files very difficult, so

the desktop environments seem to be storing filenames in UTF-8 with no

regard to the locale.

GTK apps also look at the environment variable G_FILENAME_ENCODING,

which you may want to define, but if memory serves me correctly it

defaults to UTF-8 so with an UTF-8 locale you don't need to care.
Are you sure .profile is sourced in your X session? Try checking the

environment variables are set in an xterm.

The command locale will also print out the locale settings, but I can't

remember if OpenBSD has one (I'm stuck on a painful mobile device so I

can't check).
Do the filenames look ok if you ls them in an xterm?
HTH,

Jussi Peltola
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I don't  think it has one either. In any case I noticed that indeed

the two "sets" weren't really accepted by the system:
        perl: warning: Setting locale failed.

        perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:

        LC_ALL = (unset),

        LC_CTYPE = "he_IL.UTF-8",

        LC_COLLATE = "he_IL.UTF-8",

        LANG = (unset)

        are supported and installed on your system.

        perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
OK, I checked that and they don't. They appear like gibberish and

question marks surrounded by circles. I guess this conforms to the

above perl warning. Maybe there just isn't a "he_IL.UTF-8" locale for