Saturday, June 23, 2007

A great journey starts with a single step.

At midnight, I were very exciting to test a string comparison in Arabic language using arrays and string function in PHP regarding my thesis Al Farāhídi Arabic spell checker engine.

Suddenly, I stop due to text editor issue. My current text editor – UltraEdit 8.00a - not supports Arabic characters. Event thought, I have changed the format to UTF-8 encode. I can’t write my testing scripts.

The quick solution is to download a new text editor. My search result return so many. I did try some links. What I have tried so far not prefect yet.

I asked consultation from my friend at Middle East Jeddah. He suggested using PHP expert editor. I laughed because it was my advice to him before during our final year project for bachelor degree.

I downloaded the PHP expert editor demo version and it supports Arabic character. On other hand, I still not satisfied to use this editor for my research because the demo version is only for 30 days and my research will go more than that.

Then, I download dzSoft PHP editor dome version also. The same issue, 30 days only.

The commercial software is not avoidable such as Dreamweaver and FrontPage. Then, I started to search for open source PHP editor.

After a few attempts on open source, I found my editor named notepad ++. This notepad is good and only about 2.7MB. This editor has more features and plug-in that I will mention it later.

Right now can go to sleep!!

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