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   1 ;;; hebrew.el --- Support for Hebrew
   2
   3 ;; Copyright (C) 1995 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
   4 ;; Copyright (C) 1995 Electrotechnical Laboratory, JAPAN.
   5
   6 ;; Keywords: multilingual, Hebrew
   7
   8 ;; This file is part of GNU Emacs.
   9
  10 ;; GNU Emacs is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
  11 ;; it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
  12 ;; the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
  13 ;; any later version.
  14
  15 ;; GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
  16 ;; but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
  17 ;; MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
  18 ;; GNU General Public License for more details.
  19
  20 ;; You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
  21 ;; along with GNU Emacs; see the file COPYING.  If not, write to the
  22 ;; Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
  23 ;; Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
  24
  25 ;;; Commentary:
  26
  27 ;; For Hebrew, the character sets ISO8859-8 is supported.
  28
  29 ;;; Code:
  30
  31 (make-coding-system
  32  'iso-8859-8 2 ?8 "MIME ISO-8859-8"
  33  '((ascii t) (hebrew-iso8859-8 t) nil nil
  34    nil ascii-eol ascii-cntl nil nil nil nil nil t))
  35
  36 (register-input-method
  37  "Hebrew" '("quail-hebrew" quail-use-package "quail/hebrew"))
  38
  39 (defun setup-hebrew-environment ()
  40   "Setup multilingual environment (MULE) for Hebrew.
  41 But, please note that right-to-left writing is not yet supported."
  42   (interactive)
  43   (setq coding-category-iso-8-1 'iso-8859-8)
  44
  45   (set-coding-priority
  46    '(coding-category-iso-7
  47      coding-category-iso-8-1
  48      coding-category-iso-8-2))
  49
  50   (setq-default buffer-file-coding-system 'iso-8859-8)
  51   (set-terminal-coding-system 'iso-8859-8)
  52   (set-keyboard-coding-system 'iso-8859-8)
  53
  54   (setq default-input-method '("Hebrew" . "quail-hebrew"))
  55   )
  56
  57 (defun describe-hebrew-support ()
  58   "Describe how Emacs supports Hebrew."
  59   (interactive)
  60   (describe-language-support-internal "Hebrew"))
  61
  62 (set-language-info-alist
  63  "Hebrew" '((setup-function . setup-hebrew-environment)
  64             (describe-function . describe-hebrew-support)
  65             (charset . (hebrew-iso8859-8))
  66             (coding-system . (iso-8859-8))
  67             (sample-text . "Hebrew      \e,Hylem\e(B")
  68             (documentation . "Right-to-left writing is not yet supported.")))
  69
  70 ;;; hebew.el ends here