Multilingual programming

[Sleidia]

Hello

I've always programmed web sites in French and Japanese but there are issues I've always avoided mainly because lack of time. But now, it's time for me to find a way to work in a more clever way, and hopefully, you could help

I work on a japanese version of Win98 mainly with Homesite 5.0. Until now, I lazily decided to use HTML to output french accents (like è ... etc) but now that I have more and more sites to design in French, I need to be able to work directly with the right character set inside the code editor.

Although I managed to input French in the editor with the Lucida Console font, I've found out that the code gets broken when I have something like : $var = "bébé" . In that case, the last double quote isn't recognized by the code parser.

I've been told that Dreamweaver can handle multi language very easily, but I don't want to buy it right now. And it takes too much memory in my opinion.

So, what are the alternate solutions for a comfortable multigual programming experience?

Should I install a Unicode font instead?
Where could I find such a font for free?

Are there other solutions instead?

Thanks a lot to the ones who will help!

 

[DaRNCaT]

try pspad, it seems to support lots of languages.

http://www.pspad.com/en/index.html

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Sometimes, when my code just won't behave, I take it outside and make it listen to britney spears music, and when it comes back it's really well behaved. I wonder if it's suffering from post tramatic stress syndrome now..

 

[Sleidia]

Hi DaRNCaT

That's funny because I've found this application yesterday on the web for the first time after an exhausting Google search.

I'm testing it and it looks like it works fine. No PHP parsing errors encountered in comparison to Homesite.

But there is something I'd like to understand : Why, even on PSpad, accentuated characters become one with the closest character??? For example, é" becomes one character within the editor, which means that I have to delete " and to write it again if I want to edit the é.
This happens on every application I've ever used.

 

[DaRNCaT]

I honestly don't know, I've never had to use any language apart from english.
Perhaps you could contact the guy who's written pspad and ask him?

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Sometimes, when my code just won't behave, I take it outside and make it listen to britney spears music, and when it comes back it's really well behaved. I wonder if it's suffering from post tramatic stress syndrome now..