Hi Roger,
I've looked around a bit, thinking at first that your question was
rather trivial. Appeared I was wrong. I haven't found any editor that
shows ZWSP or any other non-visible character, besides standard spaces,
tabs and newlines.
I then thought that the highly extensible Eclipse IDE would obviously
have something that would show invisible characters. But again: nothing.
Someone however did make an effort with the AnyEdit plugin to make
spaces, tabs and newlines visible. As of Eclipse 3.3, this feature is a
standard of the IDE.
Depending on how important this feature is for you, you may consider
extending Eclipse yourself or submitting an improvement suggestion for
the "show whitespace" feature. I consider it a miss that the characters
that you want visualized cannot be configured. But if you look at the
code, it should be real easy to externalize these characters:
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=22712#c67 (search for
public class InvisibleCharacterPainter).
But this is not what you are looking for: it is not a ready made editor
or IDE that shows the invisible characters on demand (Eclipse treats the
ZWSP correctly though, and you can select, copy and edit it, but you
cannot see it).
Sorry I couldn't be of more help,
Cheers,
-- Abel Braaksma
Roger Sperberg wrote:
Thanks for the suggestion.
A lot of the time, the text I have already contains the zero-width spaces. And
for new text entering the ZWSP with a Khmer keyboard driver is trivial -- hit
spacebar for ZWSP and Ctrl-spacebar for a normal space.
In that regard, entering a numeric character reference is considerably more
work, since Khmer does not use Arabic numerals. Since the number keys are
mapped to Khmer glyphs for 0-9, it would entail switching from the Khmer
keyboard to the Western keyboard after every word and then back again for the
next word.
Right now, I'm using XML Copy Editor to work on the text and the XML/XSLT when
they're together, but properly prepared text requires checking the ZWSP. The
goal is simply being able to transform content in a single file into web, PDF
or e-book format, both with and without English translation.
In the end, I'd like to do my XML and XSL work in the same editor that
I use for the content, not least so that a fully marked-up text doesn't
go to separate editors for markup and text corrections.
Any editors at all that display non-printing characters for proofing, including
the ZWSP?
Thanks,
Roger Sperberg
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