Your solution seems good enough. Could you please clarify why it's not preferable to be automatically have it there?
Arabic, Persian, Urdu and Hebrew are unusable in gnome-terminal and Lxterminal. This will fix it. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to language-selector in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1537064 Title: Using a RTL language interface should prevent APT translation from showing in terminal Status in language-selector package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: The output of APT command is in Arabic. This is problematic because gnome-terminal does not support RTL text, bug #263822 The suggested solution is to prevent translation from being shown in terminal for apt or other command line apps. This have been tested on Lubuntu and with lxtermianl and on gnome terminal and xterm. Lubuntu version: 16.04 We hope that 16.04 will get out in perfect shape for all users. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/language-selector/+bug/1537064/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp