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Right to Left (RTL) refers to the scripts of natural languages that are written and read from the right to the left instead from the left to the right, such as Arabic Hebrew and Persian..etc. These languages share common issues like Unicode BiDi & Shaping support, GUI mirroring, Fonts ... (Avoid using it for Realtek drivers)

Right to Left (RTL) refers to the scripts of natural languages that are written and read from the right to the left instead from the left to the right. see this Wikipedia article.

These languages share common issues like Unicode BiDi & Shaping support, GUI mirroring, Fonts, Input Systems ..etc. This tag was accepted as one of the standard Ubuntu bug tags

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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…
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How to set LibreOffice to use Persian / Arabic-Indic / Hindi page numbers?

I want to have my page numbers in LibreOffice Impress to be in Persian. Which means ۰۱۲۳۴۵۶۷۸۹ instead of 0123456789.
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Using RTL languages with MS Office in Wine 1.4

I've installed MS Office 2007 in Ubuntu 12.04 using Wine 1.4 with no problems, and it works fine with the English Language. However, I need to use it to work with Arabic and Hebrew, and it doesn't work when I switch to a Hebrew or Arabic keyboard. …
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Stabilizing characters like `< >`, `{ }` and `[ ]`

When the language layout is changed to a right to left language; in some standard editing places (e.g. the address bar of Google Chrome), characters like <, { and [ automatically become >, } and ] just by changing language layout. Is there a way to…
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Arabic reading error

I can't read Arabic correctly (from Right to Left) when using Firefox to open Flash websites in Ubuntu 10.10 example: http://www.fpnp.net/ Please I need help, thanks...
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Reverse rendering of Urdu fonts

I am working on a project that is based on Urdu language in Ubuntu platform. I'm using Python language and have almost achieved my task. The problem is that, the Urdu text is rendered in reverse order. For example, consider the word کام (which means…
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Showing text file content right-to-left in the terminal

Is there any way for listing file contents in a shell window, such that characters are printed from right to left rather than as usual from the left to the right? or such that the BIDI algorithm steers line direction as per the text present? This is…
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How to Type in Persian in LibreOffice?

I am new to Ubuntu 12.04 and am trying to install Persian language support for a friend. I have been googleing for an hour and can't find a tutorial to explain this. I have added additional language support and added Persian. What is the next step?…
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Switch text direction in GEdit

I want GEdit to show all paragraphs in right-to-left view. I know that it renders paragraphs starting with rtl characters correctly. But I need paragraphs starting with ltr characters also shown as rtl. Something like vim -F or set: rl command in…
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How can I automatically generate numbers for headings for right to left language in libreoffice?

I write arabic, in libreoffice how can I write a heading and libreoffice automatically generates that numbers for example: first chapter (1 second chapter (2 section one (1-2 section two (2-2 section three(3-2 Note that…
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Changing the direction of persian lines

I've got a problem with writing Persian in Ubuntu, the problem is when I try to write mixed Persian and English text files in Gedit or VIM the lines starting with Persian characters start from right direction of the screen and it's hard to follow…
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How to get rid of Lohit Hindi and set a different default font in right to left complex script

I use multiple languages with libreoffice. I have genome ubuntu 12.04 installed. When i change the keyboard layout from English to Pashto or Persian the standard font is changed to Lohit Hindi. This font does not support many of the characters in…
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Can't connect to wifi in linux ubuntu

I am new to Ubuntu and Linux. I replaced Windows with Ubuntu 18.04 on my HP laptop, with WiFi chip RTL8723DE. I have already fixed a problem with an error saying "WiFi adapter not found". I followed this answer and this answer to solve that…
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Printing right-to-left in booklet format

I have a RTL (right-to-left) pdf document and want to print it in booklet format so that it could be printed double sided and binded as a book. There is simple solutions for LTR (left-to-right) documents, such as pdfbook: pdfbook…
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Flash player does not work probably with Arabic language

The Flash plug-in version 11.2 which is the latest version does not support the Arabic language. It shows the characters separated and oriented from left to right; whereas it has to display them as joined characters and oriented right to left.…
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