Comment 14 for bug 603022

many terminal application are being translated and that is good news for many language user but for RTL users this mean problem.

as I mentioned in my video comparison between Mlterm and Vte you will see unreadable messages from many APT related programs (apt-get ,apt-cache etc...) because they were translated into Arabic. and at TranslationProject.org there are many terminal software being translated. RTL user will have to read (package like egakcap)

some says why bother using terminal, will at least half of the help out there is using terminal commands. do you want to try the "ls" command and check how does VTE show your folders? سطح المكتب (desktop) will look like بتكملا حطس (potksed)

and the same with cd cat and nano. you can't use terminal apps dealing with RTL text probably.

in short every action with RTL text in your system using terminal will need a RTL capable terminal. so every time you need a terminal we need a RTL terminal

as I can see there is too many opposition to having RTL enabled terminal for RTL users. could we please have at least a suggestion when a localized system user try to open gnome-terminal that it has a known bug with RTL text and to suggest some thing else?

here is a simple comparison video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3H_HYkyD7wc
and there more here:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Mlterm