This document describes how to set hebrew font with line 
drawing for linux console.
The following was implemented on Redhat Linux 8 using unicode
keyboard table and Unicode font

To use Hebrew fonts on console your set
1. /etc/sysconfig/i18n :
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LANG="he_IL.UTF-8"
SUPPORTED="en_US.UTF-8:en_US:en:he_IL.UTF-8:he_IL:he"
SYSFONT="latarcyrheb-sun16"
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This will set the font and map for the setsysfont command.

add the following lines to /etc/rc.d/init.d/keytable 
lines will be added after 
line  with "if [ "${KEYTABLE:-bogus}" != "bogus" ]"  (line 24)
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# Unicode keyboard support
                case "$LANG" in
                      *.utf8*|*.UTF-8*)
                        loadkeys -u $KEYTABLE < /dev/tty0 > /dev/null 2>&1

                        ;;
                *)
                        loadkeys $KEYTABLE < /dev/tty0 > /dev/null 2>&1
                        ;;
                        esac
                #
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and remove the original loadkeys command that was on line 26

You can download the file from http://www.raz.co.il/razinf/download/keytable

Oded S. Resnik oded@raz.co.il