@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 -- 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 _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~algeriatul Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~algeriatul More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
