Selecting an RTL language should install RTL capable terminal emulator
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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language-selector (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Low
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Unassigned |
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:/
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
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-
Architecture: i386
CheckboxSubmission: 4190bdfb1b8df71
CheckboxSystem: 9c26adf6eed2f68
Date: Tue Apr 13 11:38:45 2010
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Netbook 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Alpha i386 (20100113)
PackageArchitec
ProcEnviron:
LANG=ar_SA.utf8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: language-selector
Changed in language-selector (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → Low |
status: | New → Triaged |
tags: | added: rtl |
description: | updated |
summary: |
- Selecting an RTL language should install and RTL capable terminal - emulator + Selecting an RTL language should install RTL capable terminal emulator |
security vulnerability: | no → yes |
visibility: | public → private |
Changed in language-selector (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Triaged → Fix Released |
Only for clarification: mlterm will not replace gnome-terminal, mlterm will be installed additionally