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Support and General Use => User Interface and Voice => Topic started by: yniq on August 31, 2006, 08:31:50 PM

Title: Hebrew support
Post by: yniq on August 31, 2006, 08:31:50 PM

Hi,

For those of you who use Hebrew on their player:

I would like to install rockbox on my iAudio X5, but before that, I have some questions about Hebrew compatibility.

1. Can I see Hebrew filenames while browsing? Is it written backwards?
2. Choosing Hebrew coding changes also the menus? (I want to keep the menus in English).
3. Are there any issues regarding Hebrew compatibility at all?

Thank you very much!  :)

Title: Re: Hebrew support
Post by: markun on September 01, 2006, 12:57:47 PM

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1. Can I see Hebrew filenames while browsing?

You can see them if you select one of the fonts with hebrew support.

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Is it written backwards?

Yes, the text is displayed right-to-left

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2. Choosing Hebrew coding changes also the menus? (I want to keep the menus in English).

No, it will only change the default encoding for your tags (unless they are unicode already). To change the menus you would have to select a language file.

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3. Are there any issues regarding Hebrew compatibility at all?

Two problems are that text is always left alligned and scolling text always moves to the left.

Title: Re: Hebrew support
Post by: yniq on September 02, 2006, 05:36:30 AM

Quote from: markun on September 01, 2006, 12:57:47 PM

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Is it written backwards?

Yes, the text is displayed right-to-left

Thanks! but I'm not sure about your answer - by "backwards" I ment that the hebrew letters are displayed backwards, i.e. "hebrew" will be displayed as "werbeh", and not anything related to alignment.

Title: Re: Hebrew support
Post by: markun on September 02, 2006, 08:30:19 AM

Quote from: yniq link=topic=6235.msg48540#msg48540

Thanks! but I'm not sure about your answer - by "backwards" I ment that the hebrew letters are displayed backwards, i.e. "hebrew" will be displayed as "werbeh", and not anything related to alignment.

right-to-left is what you call 'backwards'

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Writing_system#Directionality

Here you can see which of our fonts have hebrew support:

http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/UnicodeFonts

Also the Hebrew-* fonts will work

Title: Re: Hebrew support
Post by: RaeNye on September 02, 2006, 06:26:35 PM

Hebrew support is complete, i.e., the hebrew chars appear in the right order for reading without reversing the filenames manually.

There's still minor RTL things, e.g., scroll direction and menu alignment, but these are negligible.

Title: Re: Hebrew support
Post by: yniq on September 03, 2006, 02:39:40 AM

Thanks a lot! :)