BiDirectional text in the terminal emulators and console programs(2020)

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Summary

This gist will show the support of BiDirectional text in the terminal emulators and console programs. You can read more about the standardization efforts at the dedicated page of FreeDesktop Terminal BiDi working group. How to test Logical Order ◀ ◀ ◀ RTL LTR ▶ ▶ ▶ WHAT IS UNICODE؟ in arabic in arabic ؟EDOCINU SI TAHW ؟EDOCINU SI TAHW in arabic ما هو الترميز الموحد يونيكود؟ in Arabic ما هو الترميز الموحد يونيكود؟ in Arabic Supporting BiDirectional text According to a new standard Please note, that specification is preliminary yet, and VTE implementation is still work in progress: Incompatible and incomplete implementations mlterm konsole qterminal mintty Cygwin and MSYS/MSYS2 - Windows platform Supporting BiDirectional text programs, but incompatible Not supporting BiDirectional text Terminal multiplexers tmux - not yet tmux/tmux#1936 screen - not yet pymux - not yet prompt-toolkit/pymux#77 dvtm - not yet martanne/dvtm#99

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