Hebrew

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This page is about adding support for Hebrew language to the IT. The information is for the latest ITOS release (currently ITOS2008 diablo), but most of it is also relevant to older releases.

Contents 1 Fonts 2 Encoding 3 Input 4 Applications

Fonts

Install culmus package from gplsystems.com repository.

It is also useful to install microsoft truetype fonts (arial, tahome, etc.) To do this, create directory /home/user/.fonts, copy fonts from some source to this directory, and run (as user) the command fc-cache.

Encoding

Some applications use iconv for charset, so you need to install the package more-gconv-modules from mg.pov.lt repository. After installing this package, you need to run (as root) the command iconvconf /usr/lib/more-gconv/.

Input

There are four input methods:

1. On screen keyboard - There are three options for adding Hebrew support to the on screen keyboard:
   • him-hebrew, see here: http://him-hebrew.garage.maemo.org/
   • him-arabic, install the package hebrew from gplsystems.com repository. This will install him-arabic with Hebrew keyboard.
   • Hebrew support for standard OSK - Download the file http://my.arava.co.il/~matan/770/heb/he_IL.vkb and copy it to /usr/share/keyboards, download http://my.arava.co.il/~matan/770/heb/ar_heb_lang_name.tgz and open it (as root) with the command tar -C / -xzf ar_heb_lang_name.tgz. After a reboot Hebrew should be added to the languages list.
2. On screen thumb keyboard - The last method for on screen keyboard also provides on screen thumb keyboard in Hebrew.
3. Hardware keyboard (N810 only) - Download the file http://my.arava.co.il/~matan/770/heb/rx-44 and copy it (as root) over /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/nokia_vndr/rx-44. Now you need to run the command setxkbmap us-he after every boot. After running this command the key "Chr" acts as a shift for Hebrew and "Shift-Chr" as a lock for Hebrew.
4. External (bluetooth or USB) keyboard.

Applications