How to enable Arabic support in GNOME terminal?

I'm trying to write Arabic in the terminal app but it does not recognize right-to-left text and does not bind the Arabic letters together as it should.

I tried this solution https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/vte/+bug/263822 but it did not work.

Are there any plans to implement Arabic support in the gnome terminal? KDE Konsole terminal works without any problems.

For Ubuntu 64 bit, you would need to download BiCon, the Bidirectional Console, download

instead. I guess you were having a dependency problem. You would need also to install the apps stated above with this command.

sudo apt-get install libfribidi0 libfribidi-dev

Hope that this could help

try this: sudo apt-get install libfribidi0 libfribidi-dev, install THIS package, then vim /usr/share/applications/gnome-terminal.desktop and add this code to the document:

Terminal=true
Exec=/usr/bin/bicon.bin

Use Mlterm, It's has great support for Arabic and other non-latin characters. You can download it from Ubuntu repositories:

sudo apt install mlterm

GNOME Terminal 3.34 supports right to left scripts such as Arabic.

The work actually went into VTE version 0.58, so any other terminal emulator using VTE (e.g. Tilix, Terminator, Xfce Terminal, Guake...) will automatically receive it.

It's going to debut in Ubuntu 19.10 Eoan Ermine.