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Word Processors and Text Editors

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Word Processors Text Editors

Chinese, Japanese and Korean word processors and text editors are reviewed on a separate page.

Word Processors

unitype.gif Unitype Global Writer 98

A multilingual word processor with TrueType fonts and pop-up keyboards for more than 100 languages.  Non-expiring shareware.

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abiword.gif AbiWord

An open-source word processor with many features, including autotext and overline.  You can type any European language you have fonts and keyboard layouts for.  Read how you can type Cyrillic.  The bidi(rectional) build also supports right-to-left languages such as Arabic or Hebrew.

Download the latest version of setup_abiword_bidi.exe from

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cte.gif Classical Text Editor

The word processor for critical editions.  It has its own keyboard layouts to type Unicode Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Hebrew or Arabic.  The shareware version will print "Unregistered Copy of the Classical Text Editor" on top your text.

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drich.gif DingDang Write 2000

It is basically a Simplified Chinese word processor but you can type any language you have fonts and keyboard layouts for, including Arabic, Cyrillic and Hebrew.  Non-expiring shareware.

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ooffice.gif soffice5.gif  OpenOffice.org and StarOffice

OpenOffice.org is an excellent open-source alternative to Microsoft Office.  Under Windows 98, you can insert any Unicode 2.0 character but you can only type languages that use the Latin, Greek or Cyrillic alphabets.  Right-to-left languages are not supported.

StarOffice is the commercial version of  OpenOffice.org with Sun's proprietary add-ons, including the Adabas D database and third-party fonts.

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qtext.gif QText

A pre-Unicode word processor with both tables and right-to-left support.  It comes with its own fonts and keyboard layouts for Arabic, Hebrew, Yiddish, Baltic, Central European, Cyrillic, Modern Greek, Turkish and Western languages.  Shareware for 30 working days.

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Text Editors

unipad.gif Sharmahd Computing UniPad

A free plain text editor with its own Unicode bitmap font.  In addition to its own keyboard layout definitions, it also supports Windows keyboard layouts, including Arabic, Cyrillic and Hebrew.

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emeditor.gif EmEditor

A shareware Unicode text editor.  Read how you can type Cyrillic, Esperanto or Maltese in it.  Version 3.27 does not support right-to-left languages.

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notetab.gif NoteTab Light

A free Notepad replacement and HTML editor to type various languages, including Arabic, Hebrew, or Russian.

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rceditor.gif Rovásíró

A free text editor to type Hungarian runes right-to-left or left-to-right.

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jar.gif Simredo

A free Unicode text editor with special features for Esperanto and right-to-left languages.  In addition to its own keymaps, it also supports Windows keyboard layouts, including Arabic, Cyrillic and Hebrew.  You need Sun's Java to run it.

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uniedit.gif UniEdit 1.5

A multilingual text editor with fonts and pop-up keyboards for more than 100 languages.  Shareware.  Version 1.3 (uniedtry.exe) is still available for Windows 3.1.

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yudit.gif Yudit

A free Unix-born Unicode text editor with smart keyboard layouts and manually editable properties.  It supports European, Middle Eastern, Far Eastern and many other languages, including historical scripts like Rovásírás (Hungarian runes).

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