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[Usama Akkad <562130@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I've started Main Inclusion Request
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mlterm/+bug/603022

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Selecting an RTL language should install RTL capable terminal emulator
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/562130
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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