Two questions about Arabic and right-to-left text #12118

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opened 2026-01-31 03:06:46 +00:00 by claunia · 0 comments
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Originally created by @vefatica on GitHub (Jan 19, 2021).

I Google for "hello Arabic". I get the usual translation dialog and press the "copy" button.
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I paste to a TCC command line in WT ...
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Two questions:
CHARMAP doesn't show any Arabic characters for my font (Consolas). Where are they coming from?

If I backspace, those pasted characters are deleted from the left end! Who (what software) knows (and how) that it's right-to-left?

Originally created by @vefatica on GitHub (Jan 19, 2021). I Google for "hello Arabic". I get the usual translation dialog and press the "copy" button. ![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/61856645/105072653-0b673d00-5a54-11eb-817b-c40e5bf2c0ad.png) I paste to a TCC command line in WT ... ![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/61856645/105072830-3ea9cc00-5a54-11eb-84da-f1c71940351e.png) Two questions: CHARMAP doesn't show any Arabic characters for my font (Consolas). Where are they coming from? If I backspace, those pasted characters are deleted from the left end! Who (what software) knows (and how) that it's right-to-left?
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Reference: starred/terminal#12118