Hi Meir.

Meir Guttman wrote:
> 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!)

The DOS box is not unicode-aware. so you need to convert the text to 
hebrew 8-bit encoding before printing it out.
try to convert it (decode) to "iso-8859-8" or "cp865", or, if these two 
doesn't work, try "cp1255".

Of course, you need to make sure that your terminal is loaded with 
hebrew-capable fonts.
I would advise to first write a small program that print a nice table, 
with all the characters above 30. you should see hebrew letters in 
there, or you need to change the font.
In addition, it will give you a clue which code page you need to use.
Indexed by the 'Alef' position:
128 - cp865
224 - iso-8859-8

Have fun.
Shmuel.

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