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Questions tagged [right-to-left]

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Type from right to left

Is there a command to make Vim type from right to left? If not us any one aware of this plugin?
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How to type a right to left language in terminal?

I have installed Debian recently (without a GUI) to learn the CLI and C using the LearnCodeTheHardWay tutorials. Its going well, and I feel at this stage I do not need any GUI. However, one thing I might need is to view, and edit in a right to left…
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With EN/HE layout, why do the arrow keys switch from logical to visual with Ctrl down?

I type in both Hebrew and English. When I use the Windows Manager's dialogs, or a GUI text editor such as leafpad, and type Hebrew text, I find the horizontal arrow keys (LeftArrow and RightArrow) behave as follows: With no key down, cursor…
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What are good text editors with RTL (right-to-left) support?

gvim doesn't seem to support it out of the box on my Ubuntu lucid.
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how to properly display right to left language (arabic) in conky?

how to properly display right to left language (arabic) in conky ? here is the content of a file: and here is conky screenshot:
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Using VIM, how do I remap directional keys from right hand to left hand?

This is the best solution I've seen so far: " Map Right Directionals to Left Commands noremap s h noremap d k noremap f j noremap g l " Map Left Commands to Right Directionals noremap h s noremap k d noremap j f noremap l g However, when actually…
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Magazine publishing software with RTL support

We want to publish an electronic magazine about to free software applications such as Gimp, Inkscape, GNU/Linux and so on. We need a magazine or book design application similar to InDesign of the Windows world. We found Scribus, but our language is…
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Right-to-left text in SSH is inconsistent

I am using SSH to connect to a server, where on occasion I need to work with some right-to-left language (e.g. Arabic). When I use some console software (e.g. lxterminal or xfce4-terminal), it works out just fine. In other terminals the text is…
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Does Geary support Right-to-Left?

I wanted to use Geary as my mail client instead of Thunderbird. But I don't know if it supports Right-to-Left text! (I want to be able to write languages like Persian, Arabic, Hebrew etc)
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How can I determine which fallback font is being used for a given character?

I'm using LibreOffice (7.4.1.2) on Devuan (Daedalus). I've set the right-to-left language group font to some font, let's say it's font family Foo in size 12, regular; and I type a few glyphs in Hebrew or in Arabic. Problem is, this Foo font has no…
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Escaping UTF-8 encoded URLs

I want to replace a variable expansion with a URL --- directly inside a file. The URL I want to replace the variable expansion with is UTF-8 encoded due to the language of its webpage name being Right-To-Left (RTL) [Hebrew]. Here is a…
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