Re: Does OpenBSD support Hebrew?

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Cc: Amit Finkler <amit.finkler@...>
Date: Saturday, September 22, 2007 - 12:24 pm

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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Does OpenBSD support Hebrew?, Amit Finkler, (Sat Sep 22, 11:25 am)
Re: Does OpenBSD support Hebrew?, Marc Espie, (Sun Sep 23, 6:20 pm)
Re: Does OpenBSD support Hebrew?, Amit Finkler, (Mon Sep 24, 2:30 am)
Re: Does OpenBSD support Hebrew?, Timothy Wilson, (Sun Sep 23, 8:06 pm)
Re: Does OpenBSD support Hebrew?, Jussi Peltola, (Sat Sep 22, 12:24 pm)
Re: Does OpenBSD support Hebrew?, Amit Finkler, (Sat Sep 22, 2:59 pm)