Lynx - how to make it to show hebrew text correctly?

[Fght]

it shows it flipped

[broe23]

Flipped as in how? Unicode is somewhat hard with text/Dos style browsers and other programs. Are you using it with an install of Rasbian with a gui, or using Rasbian Lite?

[Heater]

As far as I know Hebrew is written from right to left, not left to write. Unicode supports this but I wonder if all programs using Unicode do. Does Lynx even support such backwards languages?

This Unicode thing is a disaster and can get you into all kinds of a mess.

Like this perfectly valid, but bizarre looking Javascript with Hebrew variables:

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// An object with Hebrew name "א" (Alef)
var א = {};

// Set a property on א called ב (Bet)
א.ב = 7

// Display the ב property
console.log(א.ב);

[DougieLawson]

it shows it flipped

Set

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display_rotate=0x20000

reboot and see how that works for you.

[Heater]

I do hope that was said jest Dougie.

[scruss]

it shows it flipped

Yes, it does:

shalom ḥaverim in standard terminal

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When it should look a little more like:

shalom ḥaverim in mlterm

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See how the Final Mem characters (the m's in shalom ḥaverim) are on the left, rather than the right.

While lxterminal might support RTL text, it seems to be less keen on mixing LTR with RTL (aka ‘bidi’ support). Luckily, mlterm handles this. Try installing these:

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sudo apt install mlterm unifont xfonts-efont-unicode fonts-vlgothic  fonts-nanum fonts-baekmuk fonts-arphic-bsmi00lp fonts-arphic-gbsn00lp t1-cyrillic mlterm-im-uim mlterm-im-m17nlib mlterm-im-scim

Then open an mlterm:

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mlterm &

and then try this web page from that new terminal:

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lynx 'http://aharon.varady.net/browser-test/index.html'

Please let me know how you get on. Languages are difficult, and computers haven't quite caught up. UTF makes things much better for many users, though.

[Heater]

Interesting. When I view that page in Lynx in the Konsole terminal of KDE it seems to come out correctly. At least it looks the same as Chrome:

[scruss]

Interesting. When I view that page in Lynx in the Konsole terminal of KDE it seems to come out correctly.

Yes, Konsole seems to have bidi support, at least according to Web browser Testing for Unicode Hebrew and Diacritical Mark Positioning: CSS @font-face Test Results.

[DougieLawson]

I do hope that was said jest Dougie.

Did I miss adding the smiley?

[Fght]

it shows it flipped

Set

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display_rotate=0x20000

reboot and see how that works for you.

do you mean to edit the lynx.cfg file and change what you said?

when i open it with nano it is empty (non existed file)

[Fght]

scruss
i'm trying your suggestion now

edit:

i've tried it but now it only shows rectangles instead of letters

[stderr]

it shows it flipped

Set

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display_rotate=0x20000

reboot and see how that works for you.

do you mean to edit the lynx.cfg file and change what you said?
when i open it with nano it is empty (non existed file)

Your original comment seemed to me as well that you were saying the characters were presented upside down. But as is now clear, the issue is one of right to left being rendered as left to right. Before I worried about that, I'd be trying to figure out why the font is so tiny I couldn't even make out the characters. What's the deal with that?

[DougieLawson]

it shows it flipped

Set

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display_rotate=0x20000

reboot and see how that works for you.

do you mean to edit the lynx.cfg file and change what you said?

when i open it with nano it is empty (non existed file)

That goes in /boot/config.txt and will cause the whole display to be flipped vertically.

[scruss]

i've tried it but now it only shows rectangles instead of letters

Yes, I'm trying to work out which fonts I installed to make it work. They're not on a stock Raspberry Pi.

[Fght]

thanks anyway....

i did initially looked for a very easy solution.....