Noone knows how to do BiDi in terminal emulators. Some terminal emulators (e.g. konsole) apply some magic which fixes certain things while breaks others, gnome-terminal is not one of them.
See e.g. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=321490. ** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #321490 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=321490 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-terminal in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1629855 Title: month names reversed (hebrew) Status in gnome-terminal package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: Month names appear in hebrew, after clean install. The problem is that the names are printed reveresed: This is what is printed in the terminal: לוי When copy and past a line from the terminal to the browser the Hebrew text appears correctly: drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 יול 19 23:49 rsyslog.d/ d The problem seems like a rendering problem in the terminal ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04 Package: gnome-terminal 3.18.3-1ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-38.57-generic 4.4.19 Uname: Linux 4.4.0-38-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.1 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: Unity Date: Mon Oct 3 15:14:24 2016 ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/gnome-terminal/gnome-terminal-server InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-10-03 (0 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20160719) SourcePackage: gnome-terminal UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-terminal/+bug/1629855/+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
