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 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to vte in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/263822 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 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/vte/+bug/263822/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
