Right-to-left and Bidirectional Text
Support for right to left (RTL) texts (like Hebrew, Arabic, Persian) and the mixture of left to right (LTR) and RTL known as bidirectional (bidi) support.
Depending on the algorithm used in the programs they might only render the bidirectional text correctly but may not be able to edit them. (e.g. Notepad++ 5.1.3 shows bidirectional texts correctly but you cannot edit it and you should change the window direction to be able to edit right to left texts correctly.)
| Right-to-left (RTL) | Bi-directional (Bidi) | |
|---|---|---|
| Acme | No | No |
| AkelPad | No | No |
| Alphatk | ? | ? |
| Aquamacs | ? | ? |
| BBEdit | No | No |
| Bluefish | Yes | Yes |
| ConTEXT | ? | ? |
| Crimson Editor | ? | ? |
| Diakonos | ? | ? |
| E Text Editor | ? | ? |
| ed | ? | ? |
| EditPlus | No | No |
| Editra | ? | ? |
| EmEditor | No | No |
| Geany | ? | ? |
| gedit | Yes | Yes |
| GNU Emacs | Yes | Yes |
| Gobby | ? | ? |
| JED | ? | ? |
| jEdit | ? | ? |
| JOE | ? | ? |
| LE | ? | ? |
| Kate | Yes | Yes |
| KEDIT | No | No |
| Komodo Edit | Yes | Yes |
| KWrite | ? | ? |
| Metapad | ? | ? |
| MS-DOS Editor | ? | ? |
| mined | Yes | Yes |
| Nano | ? | ? |
| RTL | Bidi | |
| NEdit | ? | ? |
| Notepad | Yes | Yes |
| Notepad++ | Yes | No (limited) |
| Notepad2 | No | No |
| NoteTab | ? | ? |
| nvi | ? | ? |
| Pico | ? | ? |
| PolyEdit | ? | ? |
| Programmer's Notepad | ? | ? |
| PSPad | ? | ? |
| Q10 | ? | ? |
| RJ TextEd | Yes | Yes |
| RText | ? | ? |
| SciTE | No | No |
| skEdit | ? | ? |
| SlickEdit | ? | ? |
| Smultron | ? | ? |
| Source Insight | No | No |
| SubEthaEdit | Yes | Yes |
| Sublime Text | No | No |
| TED Notepad | ? | ? |
| TextEdit | Yes | Yes |
| TextMate | No | No |
| TextPad | ? | ? |
| TextWrangler | ? | ? |
| The SemWare Editor | No | No |
| UltraEdit | No | No |
| VEDIT | ? | ? |
| Vim | Yes | No |
| XEmacs | ? | ? |
| Yi | ? | ? |
| RTL | Bidi |
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