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Typing in Hebrew in Ubuntu (and other foreign languages too)

This was apparently a challenge because the documentation is pretty scant.

I am now using Ubuntu 7.04 (so fresh) but regardless, could not find for the life of me how to edit a Word document in Hebrew using an OS that is all about being international (edit was supposed to be done in OpenOffice).

There are two steps – the first is the most logical and important, the second silly but crucial. So here goes:

1. Set up Hebrew in Ubuntu

From the System menu, select Administration and then Language Support. There, add your language(s) of  choice. Once you click OK, Ubuntu will download the additional fonts and whatever it needs to support the use of the additional language.

2. Add the *Keyboard Indicator* to the panel

Unlike Windows, which adds the language switching to the taskbar, Ubuntu leaves that for you to do. Not that I knew about it until I found a reference to a ‘Keyboard Indicator’ applet which does the exact same thing. To add it to your Ubuntu panel, right click the panel and select ‘Add to Panel’. From the list that appears, select ‘Keyboard Indicator’, which will now display the languages available for your use.

What is interesting is that Ubuntu offers two keyboard layouts for Hebrew: Lyx – which is the standard Hebrew layout (Mem sofit on separate key) and phonetic (Mem sofit as shift-Mem). Cool stuff when you get it to work…

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Java WebSphere

RAD 6 stuck starting up embedded WebSphere

If you ever uninstalled an application from RAD 6’s embedded WebSphere using its admin console (http://localhost:9060/ibm/console), you may encounter a bizarre situation in RAD.

If RAD was used to install the application into WebSphere, it will now fail to ‘recognize’ that WebSphere started up even when it does, and will keep the ‘Starting…’ state going for the server status. The only way I could find to cure this ill is to reinstall the application – again from the admin console – and then try to start the server from RAD.

How do you start and stop the server from outside of RAD?

Go to {WEBSPHERE_HOME}/bin/startServer.(bat or sh) server1 (or whatever name your server uses).

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Java WebSphere

WebSphere attempting to load removed applications

Early on when working with WebSphere, I made the mistake (out of frustration and other momentary elements) of removing applications by force, simply deleting them from the server’s directory structure.

Ever since, the beast that is WebSphere was angry: no matter what I tried, it kept attempting to load the missing applications. Finally, I seem to have found the place where the application references were hiding:
cells\ENYZHLNode01Cell\nodes\ENYZHLNode01\serverindex.xml is the file that among other things, tells WebSphere which applications to load. In short, remove the missing applications from it, and you get a nicer, cleaner startup from WebSphere.

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