Add Arabic & Persian support to the terminal

[zero-n]

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:

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:

gksudo gedit /usr/share/applications/gnome-terminal.desktop

4- Add the following line to the end of file:

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.

[ejlal]

salam,

thank you zero-n, great job!

[yasir.elsharif]

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

[zero-n]

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

[q8istud]

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

[zero-n]

Hello q8istud,

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