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# The Hebrew HOWTO

## Maintained by Yair G. Rajwan, <tt>yair@hobbes.jct.ac.il</tt>

v0.4, 12 September 1995

This `Frequently Asked Questions' (FAQ) / HOWTO document describes how to configure your Linux machine to use Hebrew characters on X-Windows and Virtual Consoles. The most up-to-date version of the Hebrew-HOWTO may be obtained from my Web page or from <tt>ftp://hobbes.jct.ac.il</tt>.

## 1. Introduction

- 1.1 Changes.
- 1.2 Thanks

## 2. Standards for representation of Hebrew characters

- 2.1 ASCII
- 2.2 DOS Hebrew
- 2.3 ISO Hebrew
- 2.4 OLD PC Hebrew
- 2.5 Conversions

## 3. Virtual Consoles (VCs)

## 4. X Windows setup - XFree86 3.1

- 4.1 Hebrew fonts.
- 4.2 Installing fonts
- 4.3 Making an X application to use Hebrew fonts.
- 4.4 Mapping the keyboard.
- 4.5 Integrating all the above, examples.

## 5. Shells setup.

- 5.1 bash
- 5.2 tcsh

## 6. Applications

- 6.1 Vim
- 6.2 Hebrew pine and pico
- 6.3 Some emacs Hebrew ports.
- 6.4 Dosemu
- 6.5 XHTerm
- 6.6 TeX--XeT - Hebrew Tex.

## 7. Printer setup

## 8. Commercial products.

- 8.1 El-Mar software.

## 9. Hebrew around the Internet.

- 9.1 WWW
- 9.2 Gopher
- 9.3 Ftp

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