Hebrew on Maemo (solved)

[Erez D]

ok, i also solved (actually a workaround) the hardware keyboard issue.

as i am not able to choose a hebrew keyboard, i choosed an arabic one
instead.
the i edited the files installed from matan's hebrew-keymap and replaced
"he" with "ar" in both files (/usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/nokia_vndr/rx-51-h
and /etc/X11/Xsession.post/98hebrew-keymap ).

now i can swap layouts with ctrl-space.

I am still looking for a way to add an option to choose keyboard
hebrew+english (and not use the arabic+english one)
this will be also usefull for my friend who wants hebrew+russian+english ...

erez.

On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 12:00 PM, Erez D <erez0001 at gmail.com> wrote:

> although rebooting didn't help.
>
> this morning i can read hebrew SMS and have hebrew virtual keyboard
>
> probably somthing was cached, and using other phone's functionality (like
> listening to music with names in hebrew or somthing like that), or maybe
> defining the keyboard to arabic helped
>
> still do not have hardware keyboard. no option to choose hebrew.
>
> any idea ?
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 6:56 PM, Dov Grobgeld <dov.grobgeld at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> B'sha'a tova. I also have a N900 and I have no problem seeing Hebrew in
>> SMS and other applications (except for some initial problems with email in
>> windows-1255 encoding).
>>
>> Note that according to http://wiki.maemo.org/Hebrew_N900 the modifier for
>> switching keyboards is FN + vol+/vol- key and not Ctrl-space.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Dov
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 17:47, Lior Okman <lior at okman.name> wrote:
>>
>>> Erez D wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> hi
>>>>
>>>> just got my n900, and tried installing hebrew according to http://wiki.maemPossibly
>>>> did I install additional fonts. Here is a list of all installed packages on
>>>> my N900 that have the word hebrew in it.o.org/Hebrew_N900<http://wiki.maemo.org/Hebrew_N900>
>>>>
>>> Titchadesh.
>>>
>>>
>>>> when i receive an SMS, it's just junk (no hebrew letters)
>>>> when i try to switch layout via ctrl-space i get "input language
>>>> switched" but keyboard is still english
>>>>
>>> Try to use "shift-backspace" to change to Hebrew.
>>>
>>>  ukeyboard doesn't have an option to select hebrew.
>>>>
>>> You should select Hebrew as the second language in Settings->Text Input
>>> (scroll to the bottom).
>>>
>>>>
>>>> any idea ?
>>>>
>>>
>>> I also had to reboot the device before the UI would use the new iconv
>>> modules and show Hebrew anywhere.
>>>
>>> Lior
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Apr 3, 2007 at 10:50 PM, Matan Ziv-Av <matan at svgalib.org<mailto:
>>>> matan at svgalib.org>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>    On Tue, 3 Apr 2007, Lior Kaplan wrote:
>>>>
>>>>        Last time I've checked about the Hebrew status I was referred
>>>>        to this page:
>>>>        http://maemo.org/maemowiki/HowToRTL
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>    This page is more about the localization - changing the interface
>>>>    direction. I am interested in internationalization - getting the
>>>>    applications to work with hebrew data.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>        I've read on the page you mention bellow that you copy the
>>>>        culmus fonts
>>>>        from elsewhere. Why not just to install it?
>>>>
>>>>        See http://armel-debs.applieddata.net/debian/ for an archive
>>>>        for armel
>>>>        machines.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>    It's also possible, but on a limited storage device you might want
>>>>    to be selective, rather than installing all Culmus fonts.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>        If there are any problems with installing the Hebrew packages
>>>>        on that
>>>>        machine, I'll be happy to fix them or supply workaround packages.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>    I don't know how much you know about maemo - but in general, a GUI
>>>>    program won't work on maemo without porting (for example, only
>>>>    hildon enabled appss get keyboard input). For that reason, general
>>>>    debian arm pool is not much relevant.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>    --    Matan Ziv-Av.                         matan at svgalib.org
>>>>    <mailto:matan at svgalib.org>
>>>>
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