A simple question about hebrew in terminal

[Herouth Maoz]

Quoting Dan Shimshoni <danshimsh at gmail.com>:

> Hello,
>  I have support in hebrew on my Linux desktop (Fedora 10).
> I can switch to hebrew with the keyboard indicator and it works.
>
> Say I want to perform a simple operation in terminal: rename a file
> named a.txt to קובץ.txt
>
>
> I type:
> "mv a.txt" and then, when I type: ק and then ו and then "ב" and then
> "ץ" it shows:
>  ץבוק
>
> I can of course write the letters in reverse order, but this is not
> comfortable to do it for each rename
> operation.
>
> Is there a way to solve this ? If I am not wrong I heard about some
> BIDI support, but it seems to me that this BIDI support is for some
> specific word processing/editors. I an talking about the
> gnome-terminal.

First, I wouldn't worry about it. The name of the file is OK - the  
letters are entered into the directory in the correct order, and if  
you show it in a BiDi aware application (say, konqueror or whatever  
file explorer you use), it will show properly.

There are terminal applications that support BiDi. This is usually not  
a very good idea because it tends to confuse issues with the cursor  
and mess up curses-based applications.

Personally, I actually prefer to work in non BiDi aware apps to enter  
data (e.g. Write HTML or localization files or whatnot). It's easier  
to tell which character is the 10th from the quote etc. even in a  
mixed string.