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Unicode editor and converter for Linux

I have just downloaded and installed Yudit, supposedly the best Unicode editor for Linux. It also includes uniconv, which is a cifirica for all languages (but without its quirks). Still need to play with it to undertand how to configure it for mixed input; the demo shows its BiDi and multifont features. (It even does some handwriting recognition for Chinese and Japanese users!)

Or perhaps I should instead just go to bed and sleep some. Right!

Tried Yudit...

Tried to copy-n-paste the following string from yudit to mozilla: "Hello, shalom, zdraste" with "shalom" in Hebrew and "zdraste" in Russian. Result:

---x---
‬, здрасте

‮שלומ

Hello,
---x---

Fuck! It does not seem to properly process some (but not all!) BiDi directives. the result is what you can (?) read here. May be mozilla's fault too.

Oh no. :-)

Update: Yes, must be Mozilla. Opera does not understand BiDi, apparently, and happily writes

---x---
Hello, ‮שלומ‬, здрасте!
---x---

It also shows "strange" characters on both sides of the ‮שלומ‬ thing. Which means that Yudit must have put them there.

Hmm.