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Re: UTF-8 readable text editor?
- To: Development Discussions <developer at arabeyes dot org>
- Subject: Re: UTF-8 readable text editor?
- From: Ayman Hourieh <aymanh at gmail dot com>
- Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 11:54:32 +0200
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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/