Jedit and hebrew

[Shlomi Fish]

Hi Dan,

On Fri, 22 Jun 2012 13:52:52 +0300
Dan Shimshoni <danshimsh at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi, linux il,
> 
> Until recently I had used JEdit editor (http://www.jedit.org/) on
> Linux with a stable version (4.2 final) and hebrew worked perfectly
> out of the box, without installing any plugin.
> 
> I had installed  to  a new version of Jedit  - 4.5.2 (this is a
> "stable" version).
> 
> There are hebrew letters.
> However, I cannot write hebrew properly now (The direction is from
> left to right, opposite to what was before)
> 
> Does anybody knows anything ?

I've tried it with jedit-4.3.2-1.mga2 on Mageia Linux Cauldron, and there the
Hebrew is also displayed from left to right (same direction as English, which
is wrong). So it seems like a bug was introduced (or maybe some kind of
configuration setting is required). I'll try asking around on IRC.

> (And please avoid suggesting vi/vim/emacs/nano/ or any other editor!)
> 

I'm not going to do so given
http://www.shlomifish.org/philosophy/computers/web/use-qmail-instead/ , just note that:

1. I'll probably get on with upgrading jEdit on Cauldron given there's a new
version.

2. I found jEdit to be quite unresponsive (and I have a very fast machine -
Core i3 with 8 GB of RAM and Intel Graphics Accelerator.).

3. I know some text editors which support Hebrew and Bidi pretty well, and can
give recommendations if anyone is interested, but I won't unless being
prompted to. 

Regards,

	Shlomi Fish

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