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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 11/18/05, Bashar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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/ > > _______________________________________________ > Developer mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/developer >
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