Terminator

wrong font rendering

Bug #362971 reported by qmemo on 2009-04-17

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #263822: RTL (right to left) support in terminal (BiDi). Edit Remove

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Gnome Virtual Terminal Emulator	New	Unknown	gnome-bugs #321490
	Terminator	Invalid	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

I tried to set the encoding to Arabic Windows-1256 via the mouse menu inside Terminator, it won't be save cause every time I restart Terminator I found that it's still on UTF-8

When I changed the encoding option to Windows-1256 it accepted it but it do not render the fonts correctly .

I enclosed a screen shot for Terminator & mlTERM, Both set up to use the Arabic Font of my Choice "Thabit"

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qmemo (zerocore-eg) wrote on 2009-04-17:

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Chris Jones (cmsj) wrote on 2009-04-24:

This almost looks to me like it's a Left-to-Right vs Right-to-Left issue. Does it work correctly in GNOME Terminal?

Changed in terminator:
status:	New → Incomplete

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qmemo (zerocore-eg) wrote on 2009-04-24:

Nope it do not, in gnome-terminal it's the same problem....letters are shown separate and reversed ...

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Chris Jones (cmsj) wrote on 2009-04-25:

If it happens there too then it's almost certainly a bug in the underlying terminal library that both Terminator and GNOME Terminal use, which is called VTE.
I slightly suspct that might not even be a bug - making a RtL terminal would be pretty hard I suspect.