9 thoughts on “RTL support for Gnome Terminal”

1. I am fucking sick of reading this bug report. The correct solution is to remove the translations of apt/aptitude/whatever from the application. What happens when you fix gnome-terminal? now xterm is broken. and xfce-terminal, and the e1{7,8}. OK, lets will all those applications.

   Now what? The console is broken. I mean the real TTYs. How are you going to fix this? I am not even going deeper and explaining what is really wrong in fixing terminals to handle BIDI. But you need to understand – you are fixing the wrong problem.

2. as I said in the post, IMHO any console text shouldn’t be translated.
   however – it is quite impossible to filter only what goes in the CLI, and I guess it would be easier to fix the RTL problem than making all project stop labeling for translation any CLI text.

3. Dor – you can’t “fix the problem in console”. Not only you have 10 different applications to fix – but even if you do, you will brake something else. For example, vim editing Hebrew text will get broken – as the cursor will not point to the char it’s pointing at (since a layer above the editor, the terminal) is changing the display.

   Terminals application are dumb – they assume full control over the display terminal. If the terminal will change what the applications ask them to show, shit will hit the fan. If you don’t believe me, here is a proof: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYxvVe9y5NQ

4. so you believe we should try the other “solution” – just removing the translations from all the console programs?
   what with programs that has both GUI and CLI? they might use the same strings for both.

5. I agree with elcuco.
   We are trying to fix the wrong problem.
   The problem is that CLI strings are int the POT files, with no comment or other indication that those strings goes to the CLI and not the GUI.

   We should report this bug in GNOME, KDE, and developer mailing lists.

   If the developers won’t tell us which string goes where, we will never be able to fix this problem.

   what with programs that has both GUI and CLI? they might use the same strings for both.

   Developers shouldn’t use the same string in GUI and CLI. if we will explain the problem, they will fix it.

6. Save the following code to: /usr/bin/flip
   
#!/usr/bin/php
-1; $i--) {
$c = $line{$i};
if($c != "\r" && $c != "\n")
echo $line{$i};
}
echo "\n";
}

   fclose($handle);


   usage:
   
yourhebrewcommand | flip


   and you have your fix

7. Very nice. but:
   1) it will not work if you don’t have php installed
   2) it will not work on cli programs like vim etc.

   Dor.

8. 1) Install PHP
   2) Use a real editor

   Ben.

9. https://github.com/behdad/bicon