Comment 13 for bug 603022

On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 01:12:44PM -0000, Usama Akkad wrote:
> I meant no RTL language support in terminal , even no choice to chose
> it? I know Ubuntu want to make things easier and simpler and language
> selector is a thing to prove it or some one could argue that any one can
> download translation, writing system, fonts from Universe.
>

I see two main use cases (please let me know if i miss something) for a
terminal nowadays:

 1. use console applications (vim, ncurses based apps etc) that have
    real user interaction

 2. use console to execute installation instructions or config file
    adjustments to change the behaviour of the system.

1. is really for advanced users and is not a core deliverable of our
   end user focussed desktop etc. images. Those are a minority and we can
   expect them to go to software-center etc.

2. does not require a RTL terminal as commands and config file name as
   well as content is usually in english like languages.

 - Alexander