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[Usama Akkad <263822@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Tested on Ubuntu Xenial Xerus (development branch)  16.04  Gnome
Terminal Ubuntu 3.18.2-1ubuntu2.

See also: bug #1537064

A related bug is bug #1537064 to fix the situation when apt and possibly
other software show garbled translated scripts in terminal.

Example when running: "apt-cache policy gnome-terminal" will returned
garbled text from translated script on RTL local

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Title:
  RTL (right to left) support in terminal (BiDi)

Status in Gnome Virtual Terminal Emulator:
  Confirmed
Status in vte package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: gnome-terminal

  The program fails to display bi-directional text correctly. For example,
   the Arabic  word Went (راح) should be spelled raa (ر) Alif (ا) haa (ح)
   from right to left. The program displays the Arabic text in the opposite direction.

  examples:
  ا ب ج
  become
  ج ب ا

  if the problem with numbers (and it's not) it will look like:
  123
  become
  321

  that makes many translated terminal applications messages unreadable
  like dpkg & apt-get

  ProblemT
  ype: Bug
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Tue Sep  2 04:44:06 2008
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
  ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-terminal
  Package: gnome-terminal 2.22.1-0ubuntu2
  PackageArchitecture: i386
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=/usr/locusernamel/sbin:/usr/locusernamel/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/gusernamemes
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/busernamesh
  SourcePackage: gnome-terminal
  Uname: Linux 2.6.24-19-generic i586

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