Hebrew in urxvt

[Yuval Hager]

On Wednesday 04 November 2009, Diego Iastrubni wrote:
> whats wrong with piping text trough fribidi ?

This is exactly what this perl extension is doing. It just saves you the 
trouble.

> what do you do when you need to edit text? the text cursor gets crazy
> under all those tests.
>

Right. I usually just fire up kedit for these (rare) cases.

--y

> On Wednesday 04 November 2009 17:51:05 Yuval Hager wrote:
> > I've recently switched from Konsole to urxvt. Konsole has great bidi
> > support, which allows one to switch from logical to visual text
> > representation at the click of a button.
> >
> > I was missing bidi support in urxvt (and virtually every other terminal
> > I tried. I was told to try mlterm, but I never got to it, as it does
> > not look so exciting.
> >
> > I just found a way to view Hebrew characters correctly in urxvt, and
> > wanted to share.
> > urxvt supports perl extensions, so here's what you need to do:
> > 0) you do have the culmus fonts installed, don't you?
> > 1) install Text::Bidi. run 'cpan' and then 'install Text::Bidi'.
> > 2) install the perl bidi extension by Moshe Kamensky from
> > http://lists.schmorp.de/pipermail/rxvt-unicode/2006q3/000321.html. It
> > appears at the end of his email, copy that to a file and place it
> > under '/usr/lib/urxvt/perl'. Name it 'bidi'.
> > 3) run urxvt as folllows:
> > $ urxvt -fn 'xft:terminus-12,xft:comix no2 clm' -pe bidi
> >
> > this works beautifully, without even the need to click needed in
> > Konsole. I am not editing files in Hebrew, just need to see an
> > occasional Hebrew file name, or Hebrew logs.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > --yuval
>
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