Using a symbol font is improper, and doesn't actually spit out proper Greek. Greek characters exist in Unicode, but if you use Symbol you are actually using the ASCII characters, not the Greek ones. In addition you can't properly represent accents with Symbol.
With Hebrew, it's more than right-to-left. In Hebrew, the vowels go beneath the letters, and sometimes there are other marks as well (accent marks, the sheva, etc). In fact, most people don't know this, but the Hebrew bible originally had no vowels, spaces, or punctuation. Jon On Thu, 28 Aug 2003, Reuben D. Budiardja wrote: > On Thursday 28 August 2003 05:22 pm, Jonathan Bartlett wrote: > > Does anyone know how to write Greek in Linux? I'm using a standard US > > Keyboard. I found a little information at > > http://www.linux.org/docs/ldp/howto/Unicode-HOWTO-2.html > > but it doesn't tell how to type in the Greek into applications, or which > > applications support complex writing layouts. > > > > Any links would be appreciated. Also, if anyone knows how to do the same > > with Hebrew... > > Not sure about Greek. Can't you just use the font Symbol? > But if you're trying to write document in Hebrew, you may want to check > Abiword out. It has a bi-directional support (Right to left and Left to right > typing). > > RDB > > -- > Reuben D. Budiardja > Department of Physics and Astronomy > The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN > ------------------------------------------------- > /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign against HTML > \ / email and proprietary format > X attachments. > / \ > ------------------------------------------------- > Have you been used by Microsoft today? > Choose your life. Choose freedom. > Choose LINUX. > ------------------------------------------------- > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
