Hebrew and quail

[Aidan Kehoe]

 Ar an seachtú lá de mí na Nollaig, scríobh Uwe Brauer: 

 >    Aidan> One could probably do so. I loaded it in 21.5 out of
 >    Aidan> curiosity while writing an answer to your last mail, and it
 >    Aidan> seems our ISO 2022 Hebrew character set identifier doesn’t
 >    Aidan> match theirs, so you would need to load it in GNU Emacs,
 >    Aidan> change the coding cookie and save it as iso-8859-8 instead
 >    Aidan> of iso-2022-7.
 > 
 > What do you mean by changing the coding cookies?

The GNU Emacs Hebrew input method has something like

-*- coding: iso-2022-7bit; -*-

in its first line. You need to change that to

-*- coding: iso-8859-8; -*-

and M-x set-buffer-file-coding-system RET iso-8859-8 RET, then save the
file. 

 >    Aidan> (If and when you have experience with GNU Emacs and their
 >    Aidan> BiDi support, I’d love if you’d post a summary of the
 >    Aidan> situation here. I’d like to know what’s happening there.)
 > 
 > Ha, do you know about nntp+news.gmane.org:gmane.emacs.bidi?

No, I didn’t. It’s not an _immediate_ concern for me, but if I keep up the
Tajik I’ll need BiDi late next year to deal with Persian, with which it is
mutually intelligible. So thank you for the summary :-) .

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