[Fedora-trans-ar] bash and arabic text

[Munzir Taha]

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في يوم السّبت 29 رجب 1426 01:11, كتب Maha Helwa:
> I think it's like in windows.. u can't type any arabic letters in the
> console..

What??! Linux is much better than windows here. You can type Arabic letters
(though it doesn't look nice) but read them very nicely if you use Konsole
(kde console).

> ppl told me it's Ascii encoding not utf-8.. maybe it's the same..


>  On 9/3/05, Mohammad Ghoniem <Mohammad.Ghoniem at univ-ubs.fr> wrote:
> > Salâms,
> >
> > I have a problem with bash command line

The problem doesn't lie in the shell layer but the terminal presentation 
layer. In other words we shouldn't speak about bash, tcsh, zsh here but about
Konsole, gnome-terminal, rxvt, mlterm, ....

> > : Arabic text is displayed from
> > left to right and letters are dissociated. Do you guys happen to know
> > how to display Arabic properly in bash command line ? I am using FC4.

In Konsole there is an option on the settings to enable Bidirectional support.
Enable it first.

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Munzir Taha
Telecommunications and Electronics Engineer
Maintainer of Fedora Arabic Translation Project
https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-trans-ar
Maintainer of the OpenBugs project page at
http://www.arabic-fedora.org/munzir/OpenBugs.html
Master CIW Designer, ICDL, MOUS, Linux+, LPI 101
New Horizons CLC, Riyadh, SA
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