Posted by Hilarion on 08/24/05 14:08

> Still would like to find out if I can write Hebrew in a text editor
> though - I'd guess TextPad supports it, but I haven't found out yet
> how.

I do not know TextPad, but I checked with notepad and it worked.
To enter Hebrew chars into notepad you'll have to install Hebrew
keyboard (not physical keyborad - see regional settings) or (and
I think it's better way) use "charmap.exe" (available in accessories
/ system tools - not sure of the name because I use Polish Windows).
If you launch charmap, choose font you want to use (eg. Courier
New), tick "advanced view", select grouping by Unicode subranges
and in the group selection window select Hebrew. This way you'll get
hebrew chars in main window of charmap. You can select and copy
those chars into your application (tested in notepad). Should work
if you use same font in charmap as in your application (not all
fonts have Hebrew chars).


>> If you also want support for
>> different codepages (not only unicode), then you'll have to check
>> the advanced tab and mark the conversion tables you need.
>
> That bit I have to investigate further, as I have no idea what all
> those different codes actually do.

I'll give egzample. To write posts or create webpages in Polish
I use ISO-8859-2 ANSI codepage. Windows uses UTF-16 (also called UCS-2).
So if I display some ISO-8859-2 webpage in Internet Explorer then it
uses translation table for ISO-8859-2 to translate it to UTF-16 and
shows the results. If I use notepad to create ANSI txt file (and
I have Windows-1250 codepage selected for default ANSI codepage in my
Windows), then when I save the file the notepad uses translation table
for Windows-1250 to translate the text entered into the notepad (which
works with UTF-16) to Windows-1250 and saves the translation results
to selected file.
So if someone uses some different that UTF-16 (or UTF-8, which is
an other way to code UTF-16) codepage to write Hebrew news post
or webpage or text file, then you'll have to install translation
table for this codepage to get this post or webpage or text file
shown properly (assuming that the application you are using uses
Windows API to do the translation).


If I screwed something in my explanation then please post corrections
to it. I'm no Windows XP expert and I may be wrong on this subject.

Hilarion

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