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[Ddorda <d.dorda@xxxxxxxxx>]

The problem with this bug report you opened, is that it doesn't show the
problem and tries to find a solution, but gives a solution as the only thing
may happen.
as i said in my blog post, and as i was backuped, the Terminal is NOT
supposed to support RTL languages, as it is not for dummy users, but for
more advanced. the real solution is to find a way removing all language
translations from the CLI.

2010/4/22 Shlomil <shlomister@xxxxxxxxx>

> Usama:
> Yes. MLTerm is ugly - it doesn't have Gome-terminal's options, menu,
> scroll-bar, opacity and other features.
> The reason is simple enough - it's not a Gnome application. it was written
> directly in X API (AFAIK).
> If MLTerm will be ever included in RTL installations by default as this bug
> suggests then it should be known and agreed that it's only a temporary
> solution - a workaround for the real problem.
>
> Besides that, as Yaron said before, I think people are entitled to hold
> their own opinion and speak of it publicly.
> You have a different opinion and I respect that.
>
> Yaron:
> If we want to fix Gnome-terminal we should first come up with a design that
> Behdad Esfahbod will approve. He will accept a patch only if it is using the
> "right approach" to solve the problem. Behdad claims that none of the
> existing terminal emulators he knows solve the problem correctly. I can only
> guess that he knows about the existence of MLTerm as RTL enabled terminal
> and he probably found some flaws in it's methods of dealing with RTL text.
>
> --
> 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 Ubuntu
> RTL, 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
>
>
>
>
>

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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 Ubuntu
Hebrew Translators, which is a direct subscriber.