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[Q] Is possible to make a plugin for Arabic text?

#1

Hello All,

Just purchased a Sublime license, and I’m loving it.

The thing is, I often do Arabic projects, and since Sublime does not support neither BIDI:http://unicode.org/reports/tr9/ nor Arabic letters shaping: http://unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/ArabicShaping.txt, I having difficult time working with it. Googled the thing over and over, saw this UserVoice entry: http://sublimetext.userecho.com/topic/37207-right-to-left-languages-support/?comment_form_activate=true, and nothing else.

Then it struck my mind, if currently there are plugins that modify text while editing in Sublime Text, it’s ‘in theory’ possible to create a plugin that finds Arabic letters, reverse those words and replace each letter with the correct shape.

However, I’m afraid that doing this may have a side effect on the saved files, since the Arabic-shaping should be used for displaying only and not directly editing the file text. Hence, I have to either reverse the edits before saving a file, or create the plugin in a way that it only changes what you see, not what you type *.

Any suggestion, knowledge sharing, likes or dislikes are welcomed :smiley:*

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#2

[size=150]Just vote for adding RTL Languages here…[/size]

sublimetext.userecho.com/topic/ … s-support/

[size=150]They will add it if the votes reach 600[/size]

Thanks

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