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Yudit is a free (Y)unicode text editor for all unices. It was first released on 1997-11-08. At that time I wanted to write in Japanese and Hungarian in one single document and I realized that it does not take much effort to extend this goal and just support any script. Latest version 2.9.0 barely resembles the first version. The 2.XX series is totally independent. For 2.9.0 I have compiled a short Yudit FAQ. From version 2.7 Yudit has full bidirectional text support. You can find a mini bidirectional user guide here. Changes since 2.9.0 are listed in CHANGELOG.TXT.

Yudit is a unicode text editor for the X Window System. She can do True Type font rendering, printing, transliterated keyboard input and handwriting recognition with no dependencies on external engines. Her conversion utilities can convert text between various encodings. Keyboard input maps can also act like text converters. There is no need for a pre-installed multi-lingual environment. Menus are translated into many languages.

• Easy to install. It simply works, and it works simply.
• Intuitive . You can easily edit unicode text. No need to learn a new keybinding.
• The kinput2 method is directly supported for Japanese.
• X Input Method support.
• Handwriting recognition support.
• Easy-to-make key-input maps that can be created to input scripts with a two-way English transliteration scheme. Yudit comes with more than 100 transliteration maps contributed by Yudit users from all over the World.
• Menu translations are available in 31 languages.
• FAQ is available in 16 languages.
• Built-in printing support. High quality and locale independent postscript is generated.
• Direct True Type / Open Type font support. Yudit does not need X11 TTF support to show your text.
• Yudit can display and print your text with a mixture of X11 fonts/True Type fonts . Unicode glyphs are widely available these days but still there are some scripts that need this feature.
• Cut and paste, load and save your text with various encodings . It is possible to create a unicode text file in Linux and read it in MS Notepad on NT.
• Keyboard input maps can be used as text converters. This means that you can make instant transliterations of your scripts. If the transliterations is reversible, it is possible to read it back get the original text back.
• Unlinimted undo/redo .
• Overstriking and OTF composing-character support.
• 31-bit Unicode support.
• Drag-and-Drop (xdnd and Dnd) support.
• Full Bidirectional text support.
• Hangul Jamos with mslvt encoder (hardwired for ogulim.ttf) and X11 fonts
• Arabic, Syriac,... shaping support.
• Indic scripts: Tamil,Devanagari,Bengali,Gujarati,Gurmukhi,Oriya,Malayalam,Kannada and Telugu.
• Hungarian Runes (rovásírás) support in Private Use Area.
• External spell-checker (Hunspell) support via highlighting.

• Make a configurator screen
• Make unicode rendering state machine based and make bitmap fonts for it.

Please send me patches, kmaps and my-maps and put them on the download page.