A simple question about hebrew in terminal

[Herouth Maoz]

Quoting Dan Shimshoni <danshimsh at gmail.com>:

>> and if you show it in a BiDi aware application (say, konqueror >or   
>> whatever file explorer you use), it will show properly.
>
> It is true that if I try to browse the contents of this directory with
> mozilla for example, it shows indeed :
> File:קובץ.a
>
> However, when I try to look at the contents of that directory using
> midnight commander, it shows garbage.
> something like: ץ???ק.a
>
> And it is important for me to view the contents of directories with
> hebrew file names properly with midnight commander as it is my daily
> file management app.

seems that midnight commander has an encoding rather than BiDi issue.  
You should look for a way to set up its encoding, to be aware of UTF-8  
file names.

Herouth