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[Yaron <sh.yaron@xxxxxxxxx>]

@Usama I can partly agree with you but this is the true meaning of
brainstorming, we should hear all the suggestions before making a decision

We were locked on MLTerm while the idea brought by Shlomi to fix the
terminal according to the algorithm presented by Konsole was quite good and
actual

The reason this system is public and not private is that people could see
what you have in mind and suggest ways of making it better, sometimes its
making things harder and sometimes problems are solved at no-time

I think my position will help sort things out, until we will have the
required resources to fix gnome-terminal we should push MLTerm as default
with each installation (just like Debian does)
Meanwhile we should work together to help fix the bug in vte
(gnome-terminal) according to the algorithm presented by Konsole, this way
MLTerm will only be a temporary solution like it should be...
After the problem is solved you will have to install it manually and it will
not be installed by default

Another important things we should do first:
1. Check whether the Konsole developers are willing to help on this matter
2. Check with the vte developers if our solution is feasible (We can just
add a comment to the upstream bug, nothing more that that)
3. We could try and contact the ssh developers (a little more complicated)
and see if we can get their support (apparently they present a pretty good
support for RTL in ssh as well)

Does anyone disagree?
Yaron Shahrabani

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Selecting an RTL language should install RTL capable terminal emulator
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/562130
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Arabic
Language Translation Team, which is a direct subscriber.

Status in “language-selector” package in Ubuntu: Triaged

Bug description:
Binary package hint: language-selector

the default terminal gnome-terminal which is using vte is not able to display RTL text like Arabic,Farsi, Urdu or  Hebrew and it's a known bug that is not likly to be fixed at all as vte developer said. see bug #263822

How ever Mlterm is ready to support variant of scripts including Arabic ,Hebrew and even Chinese.
see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Mlterm

problem:
no terminal with RTL support

fix:
installing Mlterm for RTL by default

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: language-selector 0.5.4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-20.29-generic-pae 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-20-generic-pae i686
Architecture: i386
CheckboxSubmission: 4190bdfb1b8df71969b6cbad70f1beb6
CheckboxSystem: 9c26adf6eed2f681ba41f94dd24c07e4
Date: Tue Apr 13 11:38:45 2010
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Netbook 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Alpha i386 (20100113)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=ar_SA.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: language-selector