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Questions tagged [hebrew]

questions relating to the Hebrew language, fonts and possibly RTL issues

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Using RTL languages with MS Office in Wine 1.4

I've installed MS Office 2007 in Ubuntu 12.04 using Wine 1.4 with no problems, and it works fine with the English Language. However, I need to use it to work with Arabic and Hebrew, and it doesn't work when I switch to a Hebrew or Arabic keyboard. …
saeed hardan
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Hebrew subtitles are gibberish

I tried adding subtitles to a video with gsubedit (gnome subtitles), but it's showing the subtitles as gibberish and also I opened the file and saw there gibrish. I used the subtitle also in windows there they were in Hebrew, how can I make Ubuntu…
yinon
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rtl text in emacs

I'm using emacs to write my thesis. I need to create a Hebrew abstract. Is there a way to enable right-to-left text display in emacs? (the correct answer should be how can I enable right-to-left text in emacs?)
Yotam
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How to properly orient the cursor for typing in Arabic?

Whenever I am typing in Arabic, the cursor skips to the beginning of the line because if it were written from left to right, that would be where I last typed. How can I fix that?
ixtmixilix
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Browser not showing fonts properly

I am trying to reach this site: http:// www.yesplanet.co.il/presentationsJSON When trying to get it using firefox or chrome on Windows it looks ok: But when I try getting it from firefox or chrome on Ubuntu all the Hebrew is showen incorrectly. It…
AvielNiego
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installing googale (גוגלה) children's website on ubuntu

Googale (גוגלה) is a Hebrew children's educational website designed for pre-K ages (4-5). It is currently based on Microsoft Silverlight 5.1 technology. Since Chrome and Firefox have recently discontinued their support in npapi plugins, Silverlight…
Amnon
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pdflatex can't compile after 14.04 upgrade

I recently upgraded from 12.04 to 14.04, and now I'm in the process of fixing some broken applications :( My latest problem is with pdflatex (used through Lyx), after upgrading I don't seem to be able to export to PDF, the process fails with the…
eladrich
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Text justification in gtk.MenuItem

I'm writing an appindicator python script for my Gnome panel (under Ubuntu 12.10, English as the system-wide language) with a gtk.Menu, containing MenuItem's with Hebrew labels. The text is correctly justified to the right [Hebrew is RTL], but the…
alephreish
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How can I install a Hebrew supporting Microsoft Word?

I've installed Ubuntu for my little sister's PC, it fits perfectly with most of the things she does except for word processing. She must use MS office (and not LibreOffice as it is not 100% compatible with MS Office) for school projects. I've tried…
Ziv
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Hebrew language in Ubuntu 16.04.4

I'm using 16.04.4 LTS (GNU/Linux 4.4.0-119-generic x86_64) with Xfce. I have Hebrew folder names that are shown with invalid encoding: How can I fix it?
Kfir
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Displaying Hebrew in virtual console

I am using Ubuntu server 16.10, XTerm and Emacs display Hebrew and Arabic script fine. When used from within the X windowing system, the virtual console itself, that is not the terminal emulator, cannot display Hebrew. How can it be fixed?
user273104
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Hebrew and digits mixture

I want to write some text which includes Hebrew characters and numbers (by copy-pasting them, only for mathematical notation), specifically aleph-one (without access to MathJax or LaTeX). The problem is that when I paste א and try to write the digit…
tomasz
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caps lock doesn't work while on Hebrew

I'm using Ubuntu 14.04 on a Lenovo-510s. installed Hebrew keyboard. when I'm in English everything work fine with the caps lock but when im switching to Hebrew so the caps lock stop working. any one can help me fix it? tried already to search in…
asafel
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Hebrew doesn't work in LibreOffice

I'm running Ubuntu 12.04.5 with LibreOffice. I was able to write documents in Hebrew without problems and at some point Hebrew stopped working. I have no idea what caused this problem, but now I can't type Hebrew at all in LibreOffice - cursor…
Dima L.
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How to make a Hebrew-English keyboard layout combo behave like in Windows?

I would like my he-IL/en-US Keyboard layoutas in Lubuntu 15.04 to behave like it does in MS Windows, with respect to Hebrew. That probably means a lot of things, not all of which I'm aware of, but at the very least: Same behavior in virtual…
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