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[Jean-Baptiste Lallement <jeanbaptiste.lallement@xxxxxxxxx>]

Lets rewind. What is the problem here ? We are talking about an application which does not support RTL languages called VTE. And you're trying to workaround it by removing your work! Since the terminal does not support those languages, it just has to really do so and say 'I do not support this locale, falling back to standard locale "C"' We could add a kind a 'locales blacklist' and fallback to the standard 'C' in case the current locale is part of this list.
I agree it won't fix the problem, but at least we'll have readable english instead of unreadable localized text.

PROS: 
- do it once use it everywhere (or once per terminal application) 
- You don't have to remove the translations and localized text is available for all the other applications. This way GUI apps calling a CLI app will be fully translated (see bug 251705 where the GUI is partly in english due to some excluded translations from dpkg)
- Relatively easy to do. 
CONS: 
- GUI executed from CLI will also be English.
- That won't fix the output of commands issued from the terminal e.g the output of 'ls' with filenames in an RTL language, the filenames will be mirrored.

What's your opinion? Is it worth trying to write a patch ?

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RTL languages displayed incorrectly in terminal
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