#321 Right to left language support (eg Arabic)

[Anonymous]

hi,
i tried iTerm but i was not able to travel through my arabic-named
directories and files. it would be great to be able to use unix shell
comands like find, grep, cd ..etc also with arabic pattern or
arguments. also displaying and writing arabic.
thanks

[Ujwal S. Setlur]

Logged In: YES
user_id=171129

Hmm, works with Chinese and Japanese, so Arabic should not be
different. What encoding are you using?

[Nobody/Anonymous]

Logged In: NO

hi, to user: ujwal
for text and file names editing: i am using arabic written
under OSX 10.3, in programmes like TextEdit, Mellel or
Finder; so i guiss it is Unicode encoded.
in iTerm when i change the encoding to arabic or unicode, i
do not see proper arabic.

[Nobody/Anonymous]

Logged In: NO

hi, to user: ujwal
for text and file names editing: i am using arabic written
under OSX 10.3, in programmes like TextEdit, Mellel or
Finder; so i guiss it is Unicode encoded.
in iTerm when i change the encoding to arabic or unicode, i
do not see proper arabic.

[fabian]

Logged In: YES
user_id=657158

I guess it's a direction problem. Arabic is right-to-left. I
wasn't aware that somebody is going to use Arabic in
Terminal, so display is hard coded as left-to-right. I am
not sure how to handle this though. Do you have any terminal
program that supports arabic for us to play with? I just
want to get an idea what should be the correct behavior.