linux - "Document Text Embedding" feature for Unicode text editors

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2014-07
  • porton

    In Yudit text editor there is "Document Text Embedding" feature, which allows to change the default text embedding (left-to-right or right-to-left) for the entire document (and it is not saved on Save of the document).

    I reported that this feature is missing in both Kate and GEdit.

    Are there other (than Yudit) text editors for Linux with this feature?

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  • Andrew J. Brehm

    A common problem with right-to-left text and many text editors is that while the actual right-to-left characters are written right-to-left, the punctuation (nominally) following such a sentence is switched back to left-to-right mode again.

    This results in, for example, Hebrew text not followed but preceeded by a question mark.

    The problem can be dealt with by adding another right-to-left character after the punctuation. But that is certainly not a good solution.

    So I am wondering whether there is an invisible right-to-left character in Unicode that I could add after punctuation at the end of right-to-left text in order to get the effect of adding another character but not the sight of it.

    Any ideas?

    Or any other ideas to solve the problem?


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  • TRS-80

    Does U+200F "RIGHT-TO-LEFT MARK Right-to-left zero-width character" work? There's a few others listed at UAX #9: Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm.

  • macarthy

    I believe that openoffice allows you to do this (Add the zero-width space) with a SPACE bar + one of the Meta keys. This is certainly the case in Lao and Thai scripts.