Page 1 of 2 12 LastLast
Results 1 to 10 of 17

Thread: Add Arabic & Persian support to the terminal

  1. #1
    Join Date
    Feb 2009
    Location
    Khartoum, Sudan
    Beans
    273
    Distro
    Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr

    Post Add Arabic & Persian support to the terminal

    Terminal by default don't support Arabic well so we need to do some modification to allow it to work properly:

    1- Install the following packages:
    Code:
    sudo apt-get install libfribidi0 libfribidi-dev
    2- Download & install THIS package.

    3- Open /usr/share/applications/gnome-terminal.desktop by any editor you like:
    Code:
    gksudo gedit /usr/share/applications/gnome-terminal.desktop
    4- Add the following line to the end of file:
    Code:
    Terminal=true
    Exec=/usr/bin/bicon.bin
    5- If you have a terminal icon in desktop remove and make a new one.

    6- That's all.

    Now you can work well with Arabic & Persian in the terminal. You can create files, folders in both languages in a proper manner & you can can see file & folders names correctly.

    Finally:
    This also added Arabic & Persian support to xterm & PuTTY.

  2. #2
    Join Date
    Jun 2009
    Location
    Sudan
    Beans
    132
    Distro
    Ubuntu Development Release

    Re: Add Arabic & Persian support to the terminal

    salam,

    thank you zero-n, great job!

  3. #3
    Join Date
    Dec 2008
    Location
    Abu Dhabi, UAE
    Beans
    50
    Distro
    Ubuntu

    Re: Add Arabic & Persian support to the terminal

    Thanks zero-n, This is magnificent, fabulous, 3ageeeb .... you are the one=D>=D>=D>

    only missing the amd-64 bit
    which is:
    https://launchpad.net/~behnam/+archive/ppa/+build/574789/+files/bicon_0.2.0-1ubuntu0~ppa4_amd64.deb
    this goes instead of step 2 where you download and install bicon package
    Last edited by yasir.elsharif; April 25th, 2010 at 09:45 AM.

  4. #4
    Join Date
    Feb 2009
    Location
    Khartoum, Sudan
    Beans
    273
    Distro
    Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr

    Re: Add Arabic & Persian support to the terminal

    thanks for adding the link of amd-64-bit package.

  5. #5
    Join Date
    Feb 2010
    Beans
    3

    Re: Add Arabic & Persian support to the terminal

    hello zero-n,

    I'm followed your steps but still can't see any Arabic or Persian fonts in terminal.

    is your solution worked with Ubuntu 10.10 ??

    thanks

  6. #6
    Join Date
    Feb 2009
    Location
    Khartoum, Sudan
    Beans
    273
    Distro
    Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr

    Re: Add Arabic & Persian support to the terminal

    Hello q8istud,

    I am using 10.04 LTS but i have 10.10 CD i will this guide there & give you a feed back

  7. #7
    Join Date
    Dec 2010
    Beans
    4
    Distro
    Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx

    Re: Add Arabic & Persian support to the terminal

    hohooh! super thanks bro! I was just going to install mlterm before I landed on your thread. Working like a charm!
    Cheers!

  8. #8
    Join Date
    Aug 2007
    Beans
    190
    Distro
    Kubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx

    Re: Add Arabic & Persian support to the terminal

    will this support RTL and connect the characters? 'cause i tried that and it doesn't do it, or is there anything i'm missing

    p.s. if it does...good work
    mount and do not unmount

  9. #9

    Re: Add Arabic & Persian support to the terminal

    I have followed your instructions and Arabic text worked fine until I noticed that my console started doing this



    As you can notice, when the string grows longer of your input on the terminal it starts with a carriage return on the same line rather than prompting for your input on the next one!

    Any idea of the cause? Any missing "new line" command here or there?
    Thank you again.

  10. #10
    Join Date
    Feb 2009
    Location
    Khartoum, Sudan
    Beans
    273
    Distro
    Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr

    Re: Add Arabic & Persian support to the terminal

    Hi GNULinuxUser,

    i've faced this problem before but honestly i didn't try to solve it.

    i you find out a soultion share it with me

Page 1 of 2 12 LastLast

Bookmarks

Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts
  •