I've recently switched from Konsole to urxvt. Konsole has great bidi support, which allows one to switch from logical to visual text representation at the click of a button.
I was missing bidi support in urxvt (and virtually every other terminal I tried. I was told to try mlterm, but I never got to it, as it does not look so exciting. I just found a way to view Hebrew characters correctly in urxvt, and wanted to share. urxvt supports perl extensions, so here's what you need to do: 0) you do have the culmus fonts installed, don't you? 1) install Text::Bidi. run 'cpan' and then 'install Text::Bidi'. 2) install the perl bidi extension by Moshe Kamensky from http://lists.schmorp.de/pipermail/rxvt-unicode/2006q3/000321.html. It appears at the end of his email, copy that to a file and place it under '/usr/lib/urxvt/perl'. Name it 'bidi'. 3) run urxvt as folllows: $ urxvt -fn 'xft:terminus-12,xft:comix no2 clm' -pe bidi this works beautifully, without even the need to click needed in Konsole. I am not editing files in Hebrew, just need to see an occasional Hebrew file name, or Hebrew logs. Cheers, --yuval
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