Re: Yudit text editor

["Mohamed Eldesoky" <arabi at hotpop dot com>]

Excuse me for this so late email
Just I noticed that you said you use acon then transform to UTF-8
ummm
Can you please give me more explanation ??
If you don't want to flood the list ,although I think some guys here would
like to learn that too ,you can send me a private email.
Thanks alot

Mohamed Eldesoky
mohamed at handasarabia dot org

----- Original Message -----
From: "Hicham Amaoui" <amaoui at altern dot org>
To: <doc at arabeyes dot org>
Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2001 10:41 AM
Subject: Re: Yudit text editor


> Hello,
> I've tested yudit sometime ago and I can tell you it doesn't support
> arabic very well because of the algorithm used which is not compatible
> with the Unicode one. It add two CHARS when you switch to RTL:
> U+202E RIGHT-TO-LEFT OVERRIDE and U+202C POP DIRECTIONAL FORMATTING
>
> I personally use acon with the iso encoding then transform the file to
> utf-8 with iconv:
> iconv --from-code=ISO_8859-6 --to-code=UTF-8  file.po -o fileutf-8.po
>
> Regards.
>
> Mohammed Elzubeir wrote:
>
> >Salam,
> >
> >The Yudit (http://www.yudit.org/) Unicode text editor has come very close
to
> >having full Arabic support. This is great news for those wanting to use
Linux
> >to edit and create documents in Arabic (eg. PO files).
> >
> >There are still some very small quirks here and there, so your testing
and
> >feedback would be appreciated -- and to your benefit I might add.
> >
> >It's really easy to compile and install (grab the latest 2.5 beta).
> >
> >This should make your life a lot easier for those of you not wanting to
leave
> >your Linux environment to translate PO files ;)
> >
> >Have fun.
> >
>
>
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