Gentoo/Hebrew

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Kernel

Linux Kernel Configuration:
Filesystems --->
  -*- Native language support --->
    <M> Codepage 437 (United States, Canada)
    <M> Codepage 862 (Hebrew)
    <M> Hebrew charsets (ISO-8859-8, CP1255)
    <M> NLS ISO 8859-1 (Latin 1; Western European Languages)
    <M> NLS UTF-8
File: /etc/conf.d/modules
modules="${modules}
nls-utf8
nls-iso8859-1
nls-cp1255
"

System

File: /etc/portage/make.conf
USE="${USE} bidi"
LINGUAS="en he"
File: /etc/locale.gen
en_US ISO-8859-1
en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8
he_IL ISO-8859-8
he_IL.UTF-8 UTF-8
File: /etc/env.d/02locale
LANG="he_IL.UTF-8"
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="he_IL.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="he_IL.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="he_IL.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="he_IL.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="he_IL.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="he_IL.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="he_IL.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="he_IL.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="he_IL.UTF-8"
env-update
locale-gen

Mount media

VFAT

mount -o iocharset=cp1255,utf8 /dev/sda1 /mnt/tmp

NTFS

mount -o utf8 /dev/sda1 /mnt/tmp

SMB

mount -t cifs -o iocharset=utf8,username=user1 //server/share

Desktop

Fonts

Basic font to enable system:

emerge media-fonts/dejavu

Usually no other font is needed, the following fonts adds some spice:

KDE

emerge kde-base/kde-l10n

SystemSettings->Input Devices

  Layouts

    Layout Indicator
      [X] Show layout indicator
      [O] Show flag

    Switching Policy
      [O] Window

    [V] Configure layouts
      us English (US)
      il Hebrew default
      il Hebrew Hebrew (lyx) <-- if you want NIKUD

  Advanced

    [V] Configure keyboard options
      [V] Keys(s) to change layout
        [V] Alt+Shift

For <Shift><Alt><Tab> to work (Reverse window switching> a patch is needed for xorg-server. See https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=865.

Applications

vlc

Make sure you translate subtitles to utf-8

iconv -f CP1255 -t UTF-8 < in > out

Servers

Samba Server

Set the following:

File: /etc/samba/smb.conf
        dos charset = CP1255
        unix charset = UTF-8
        display charset = UTF-8
        short preserve case = yes
        preserve case = yes

Samples

www-client/firefox

Machon Mamre

Firefox Hebrew Genesis.jpg

app-text/bibletime

Use: Frank Ruehl CLM font.

Bibletime Hebrew Genesis.jpg

app-office/libreoffice

Use dejavu fonts as much as possible.

Libreoffice Hebrew.jpg

Maintainer

Alon Bar-Lev

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Originally written by: Alon Bar-Lev - 2011-11-17


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