Thanks Erez! Well... shit!
If anybody disagrees with Erez, I (and I am sure Erez too) will be glad to here about it... Regards meir -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Erez Schatz Sent: Sunday, July 11, 2010 6:06 PM To: Perl in Israel Subject: Re: [Israel.pm] Hebrew in the command window On 11 July 2010 17:55, Meir Guttman <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello all "Lushen Koidesh" speakers! > > > > The problem I have is when I "print" Hebrew to the STDOUT device. It is > shown as "gibberish." (BTW, re-directing it to a file and opening it in a > UTF-8 compatible editor shows the Hebrew fine, thank you!) It's a known issue with terminals, in both Windows and Linux. The usual spiel is that Hebrew/BiDi support will break too many tools and apps to be considered. > > There is a PowerShell command shell from the same esteemed corporation. Was > anybody successful in using it to display Hebrew? PowerShell (at least, version 1 of it, which I have) uses Windows Terminal for UI (the window menu is the same as the "cmd" one). So no joy there as well. -- Erez Observations, not opinions _______________________________________________ Perl mailing list [email protected] http://mail.perl.org.il/mailman/listinfo/perl _______________________________________________ Perl mailing list [email protected] http://mail.perl.org.il/mailman/listinfo/perl
