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2 total messages Started by Brian D Milner Mon, 25 Jan 1993 14:53
Hebrew for DOS?
#3739
Author: Brian D Milner
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 14:53
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I have two students here who've bought a notebook in Britain (from the 
Computer Centre Store on Campus), and they want to use Hebrew in DOS
and Wordperfect for DOS.

Anyone had any experience of this before? I looked in the DOS manual but 
it didn't list Hebrew as an available language. Do they need a special
PC? Do they need special software?

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Re: Hebrew for DOS?
#3763
Author: Richard M. Hartman
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 19:49
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In article <C1F01p.GE9@brunel.ac.uk> Brian.Milner@brunel.ac.uk (Brian D Milner) writes:
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>I have two students here who've bought a notebook in Britain (from the 
>Computer Centre Store on Campus), and they want to use Hebrew in DOS
>and Wordperfect for DOS.
>
>Anyone had any experience of this before? I looked in the DOS manual but 
>it didn't list Hebrew as an available language. Do they need a special
>PC? Do they need special software?
>
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>|Brian Milner, The Computer Centre, Brunel University , West London, UK   |
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I think there is a Hebrew font available for Windows, as well as
a multi-lingual word processor for Windows.  But for straight DOS?
Nothing that I am aware of.  Someone may have whomped up a Hebrew
character set, but the software would have to be rewritten to
make actual Hebraic words.... (i.e. The word "File" in WordPerfect
help would appear as $!@# (or whatever), using the bitmaps defined
in the character set for the letters 'F' 'i' 'l' and 'e' respectively.
It would not translate automatically into whatever the Hebrew word
for "File" was....)



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