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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