Hebrew

Latest revision as of 11:19, 4 July 2012

These instructions refer to previous devices, for N900 please go to Hebrew N900

This guide covers setting up Hebrew support in Maemo. These instructions assume root access.

1 Hebrew for N800/810

[edit] Hebrew for N800/810

[edit] Fonts

Copying some Culmus fonts (Nachlieli, David, etc.) or Windows fonts with Hebrew (Arial, Tahoma, etc.) to /home/user/.fonts is useful in some applications.
Some applications' interface elements use Nokia fonts, so they need to be replaced with fonts that include Hebrew glyphs. Unfortunately, the fonts Nokia use are not free, so I can't distribute the Hebrew including version. To generate these fonts:
- Copy the files nosnr.ttf, nosnb.ttf, and nscnr.ttf from /usr/share/fonts/nokia on the device to a PC.
- Make sure you have FontForge installed.
- Copy Nachlieli Culmus fonts (all files beginning with Nach) from where they are installed in your system to the same directory as the Nokia files.
- Download fontmerge and run it in the same directory. to do that run:

fontforge -lang=ff -script fontmerge

Copy the generated nosnb-h.ttf, nosnr-h.ttf, and nscnr-h.ttf to /usr/share/fonts/nokia on the device, and remove the -h from the name, in order to overwrite the original fonts.
Other fonts that might need to be fixed similarly are NtmRR4nh.ttf, NcrRR4nh.ttf, and SwaRR4nh.ttf from /usr/share/fonts. This can be done with the fontmerge2 script. It seems that SwaRR4nh.ttf is the font used for the keyboard keys, so you must do this if you want to use Hebrew keyboard.

After installing or changing fonts, you should run fc-cache -f. A reboot might be needed for some applications or parts of the GUI to use the new fonts.

[edit] Virtual keyboard

Copy the file he_IL.vkb to /usr/share/keyboards. Then he_IL is added to the list of available languages for the keyboard.

[edit] iconv modules

These modules are necessary for some applications (FBreader, Minimo). Download gconv.tar.gz to the device, and run (as root):

tar xzf gconv.tar.gz -C /usr/local
iconvconfig /usr/local/gconv

[edit] Miscellaneous

HowToRTL vaguely relates to BiDi

[edit] Specific applications

Included Opera has no BiDi support, but MicroB (Mozilla based browser) does support BiDi.
Minimo works (both display and input), as long as gconv modules are installed.
Claws appears to display Hebrew fine, as long as the encoding is correctly identified in the mail itself.
FBReader: patch for rudimentary BiDi support. You can install regular packages of FBreader 0.8.1, and use this binary to replace /usr/bin/FBReader on the device.
links-2 (graphics) with some BiDi support is available (just run this binary from XTerm) Patch (relative to 2.1pre23).
MaemoTeX - this adds Hebrew (and ams) support to MaemoTeX 0.1.6. Just untar it from root directory, and run mktexlsr. Leafnode appears to have no problems editing ISO-8859-8 files.

Retrieved from "http://wiki.maemo.org/Hebrew"

Categories: Internationalization | Power users | N8x0

This page was last modified on 4 July 2012, at 11:19.
This page has been accessed 56,369 times.

@@ Line 1: / Line 1: @@
+''These instructions refer to previous devices, for N900 please go to [[Hebrew N900]]''
 This guide covers setting up Hebrew support in Maemo. These instructions assume [[root access]].
 = Hebrew for N800/810 =
-== Virtual keyboard ==
-Copy the file <code>[http://www.arava.co.il/matan/770/heb/he_IL.vkb he_IL.vkb]</code> to <code>/usr/share/keyboards</code>. Then he_IL is added to the list of available languages for the keyboard.
 == Fonts ==
@@ Line 16: / Line 16: @@
 <ul><ul>
 <li>Copy the generated <code>nosnb-h.ttf</code>, <code>nosnr-h.ttf</code>, and <code>nscnr-h.ttf</code> to <code>/usr/share/fonts/nokia</code> on the device, and remove the <code>-h</code> from the name, in order to overwrite the original fonts.</li>
-<li>Other fonts that might need to be fixed similarly are <code>NtmRR4nh.ttf</code>, <code>NcrRR4nh.ttf</code>, and <code>SwaRR4nh.ttf</code> from <code>/usr/share/fonts</code>. This can be done with the [http://www.arava.co.il/matan/770/heb/fontmerge2 fontmerge] script. It seems that <code>SwaRR4nh.ttf</code> is the font used for the keyboard keys, so you must do this if you want to use Hebrew keyboard.</li></ul>
+<li>Other fonts that might need to be fixed similarly are <code>NtmRR4nh.ttf</code>, <code>NcrRR4nh.ttf</code>, and <code>SwaRR4nh.ttf</code> from <code>/usr/share/fonts</code>. This can be done with the [http://www.arava.co.il/matan/770/heb/fontmerge2 fontmerge2] script. It seems that <code>SwaRR4nh.ttf</code> is the font used for the keyboard keys, so you must do this if you want to use Hebrew keyboard.</li></ul>
 <li>After installing or changing fonts, you should run <code>fc-cache -f</code>. A reboot might be needed for some applications or parts of the GUI to use the new fonts.</li></ul>
+== Virtual keyboard ==
+Copy the file <code>[http://www.arava.co.il/matan/770/heb/he_IL.vkb he_IL.vkb]</code> to <code>/usr/share/keyboards</code>. Then he_IL is added to the list of available languages for the keyboard.
+== iconv modules ==
+These modules are necessary for some applications (FBreader, Minimo). Download <code>[http://www.arava.co.il/matan/770/heb/gconv.tar.gz gconv.tar.gz]</code> to the device, and run (as root):
+<pre>
+tar xzf gconv.tar.gz -C /usr/local
+iconvconfig /usr/local/gconv
+</pre>
 == Miscellaneous ==
@@ Line 23: / Line 35: @@
 * [http://live.gnome.org/Hildon/HowtoRTL HowToRTL] vaguely relates to BiDi
-== Specific applications running on previous Maemo devices ==
+== Specific applications ==
 * Included Opera has no BiDi support, but MicroB (Mozilla based browser) does support BiDi.
@@ Line 31: / Line 43: @@
 * [http://www.arava.co.il/matan/770/heb/links links-2] (graphics) with some BiDi support is available (just run this binary from XTerm) [http://www.arava.co.il/matan/770/heb/links-fribidi.diff Patch] (relative to 2.1pre23).
 * MaemoTeX - [http://www.arava.co.il/matan/770/heb/tex.tgz this] adds Hebrew (and ams) support to MaemoTeX 0.1.6. Just untar it from root directory, and run <code>mktexlsr</code>. Leafnode appears to have no problems editing ISO-8859-8 files.
-= Hebrew for the N900 =
-== Virtual keyboard ==
-Install [http://maemo.org/downloads/product/Maemo5/ukeyboard/ Ukeyboard] from the application manager. Then select Hebrew as second language in the text input applet in the control panel.
-== Hardware keyboard ==
-Download the file , copy it to /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/nokia_vndr/rx-51 and reboot. You should now be able to switch between languages by using the FN + vol+/vol- keys.
-In addition, the FN+arrows keys now enable Page Up/Down, Home and End, FN+Backspace is tab and FN+Enter is escape.
-'''Warning: If you decide to make a backup of the file, make sure you save it in a different folder as keeping it will stop your device from booting. If for any reason your device does not boot after copying the file you should [http://wiki.maemo.org/Updating_the_firmware#Windows reflash] it.'''
-==== Step by Step Guide ====
-. Copy [http://my.arava.co.il/~matan/770/new-rx-51 this file] through your Maemo Browser by holding your pen over the link to your documents, it will save the file as new-rx-51.html.
-. Go to the menu, click on "More..." and open X Terminal.
-. Type "sudo gainroot" and press Enter.
-. Type the following '''exactly''': "mv /home/user/MyDocs/.documents/new-rx-51.html /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/nokia_vndr/rx-51" and press enter.
-. Run the command setxkbmap.
-== iconv modules ==
-Those modules are necessary for applications that use the character encoding support of the C library. The diablo package works on the N900. Download from [http://repository.maemo.org/extras-devel/pool/diablo/free/m/more-gconv-modules/more-gconv-modules_2.5.0-1osso10-2_armel.deb here ] and install (manually, or using red pill mode in the application manager).
 [[Category:Internationalization]]
 [[Category:Power users]]
+[[Category:N8x0]]

Personal tools

Navigation

Views