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Re: UTF-8 readable text editor?




What about using the Unicode editor Yudit (http://www.yudit.org) ? This editor does not depend on either Gnome or KDE/QT libraries, only X libraries on *nix (Windows version also available, I don't know how it works on Windows). Numerous keyboard maps are built-in, including several Arabic keyboards. Yudit also has RTL and LTR override keys and many other nice features. Note that Yudit will work just fine on *nix systems that lack i18n infrastructure, such as OpenBSD, etc.

Best Wishes--

-- Ed Trager

On Fri, 18 Nov 2005, Youssef Chahibi wrote:

Though I use KDE, Gedit is my preffered editor for arabic. Kate and
Kwrite are buggy. Kedit shows the text correctly but doesn't support
Gedit's features. If you want something more cross-platform you can
try yudit. It's good editor especially for Bidi texts but the UI is
not that cool.

On 11/18/05, Ayman Hourieh <aymanh at gmail dot com> wrote:
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

--
Ayman Hourieh
http://aymanh.com/

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