Bug#698935: gnome-terminal: right-to-left text is displayed incorrectly (as left-to-right)

[Axel Stammler]

Package: gnome-terminal
Version: 2.30.2-1
Severity: normal


Arabic and Hebrew texts are show letter by letter left to right instead of right to left.
Gnome Terminal should support bidirectional text display, e.g. for quotes like this one:

About Elly (Persian: درباره الی‎, translit. Darbareye Elly)

cf. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/About_Elly

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.6
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages gnome-terminal depends on:
ii  gnome-terminal-data    2.30.2-1          Data files for the GNOME terminal 
ii  libatk1.0-0            1.30.0-1          The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libc6                  2.11.3-4          Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2       0.88-2.1          simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libgconf2-4            2.28.1-6          GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.24.2-1          The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgtk2.0-0            2.20.1-2          The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libice6                2:1.0.6-2         X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libpango1.0-0          1.28.3-1+squeeze2 Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libsm6                 2:1.1.1-1         X11 Session Management library
ii  libvte9                1:0.24.3-4        Terminal emulator widget for GTK+ 
ii  libx11-6               2:1.3.3-4         X11 client-side library

Versions of packages gnome-terminal recommends:
ii  gvfs                     1.6.4-3         userspace virtual filesystem - ser
ii  yelp                     2.30.1+webkit-1 Help browser for GNOME

gnome-terminal suggests no packages.

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