Arabic-L:GEN:Text editor responses

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Date: 23 Nov 2009
From:Al Haraka <alharaka at gmail.com>
Subject:Text editor response


Alexis,

See this list and review text editors where bidirectional is available.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_text_editors#Right_to_Left_and_Bidirectional

I recommend Notepad++.  It is has many features that make it mainstay
for my coworkers and I (in IT).

http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm

If you need something that does more than just edit *.txt files, you
can try OpenOffice (since Microsoft Office has horrendous bidi
support).  That's my $0.02.

http://www.openoffice.org/

Regards,
_AJS

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Date: 23 Nov 2009
From:Benjamin Geer <benjamin.geer at gmail.com>
Subject:Text editor response


If I'm not mistaken, Notepad is ordering the words according to the standard Unicode bidirectional (bidi) text algorithm, which specifies that a series of RTL words should be displayed in RTL order by default.  Most punctuation is considered neutral and has no effect on display order; hence the result you're seeing.  Any text editor that uses the standard bidi algorithm will do the same thing.  If you want to override the default display order, you can insert invisible Unicode characters that are meant for that purpose.  For details, see:

http://www.w3.org/International/articles/inline-bidi-markup/

If you want more advanced editing features, you might try OpenOffice.org, which can edit plain text files and provides a convenient way to enter those invisible Unicode characters:

http://www.openoffice.org/

Ben

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Date: 23 Nov 2009
From:mariana taimeh <mar_ztc at yahoo.com>
Subject:Text editor response


Hi,
I can help you with this since I have already the arabic programms.
Best regards;
Mariana

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