CJKV Information Processing, 2nd Edition

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Chapter 10: OSes, Text Editors, and Word Processors

architecture, and also to some related standards developed by e Unicode Consortium,

specically the CLDR.

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For more information on X11R7 or on the X Window System in general, I suggest explor-

ing the X.Org Foundation website.

Text Editors

e most basic text-processing utility is clearly the text editor. Text editors allow you to

input, manipulate, and save text. e functionality that is provided by a text editor may

seem to be very basic, but, believe it or not, there are times when one would choose a text

editor over a word processor. One such circumstance is if you are composing CJKV text

for transmission by email. Special formatting, such as you would expect from a word pro-

cessor, does not travel well over email. Still, plain text continues to be the preferred way in

which to send email and other text messages. In other words, the characters and format-

ting to which one is limited when using text editors are precisely what usually travels well

through email.

e feature set provided by text editors is limited, yet useful. Most of them come with

search and replace functions, and some even allow the user to write complex macros or to

use regular expressions. Limitations typically include lack of word wrap, inadequate line

breaking, font limitations, font-size limitations, and font-style limitations.

Of the text editors ...