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Re: UTF-8 readable text editor?



On 11/18/05, Bashar <big at kuwaitnet dot net> wrote:
>
>
> Salaam All,
>
> I was wondering if anyone knows an editor that works on multiplatform
> (opensource preferable) that actually shows the arabic text as readable text
> during editing?
>
> somehow its a nightmare to work with encrypted text hoping it would show
> correctly over the web.
>
>

Salam,

Vim works for me:
:set encoding=utf-8
:set arabic

The problem with Vim and Arabic is that it changes the direction of
the whole text to RTL when arabic option is set, I managed to live
with it...

Hope this helps.

More info: http://www.vim.org/htmldoc/arabic.html

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Ayman Hourieh
http://aymanh.com/