Anmar, Could you care about putting some details about the current work in progress for BIDI/shaping support in cdebconf/newt? Petter Reinholdtsen just pointed me to this bug report from him : http://bugs.debian.org/212962 For doing so, just keep 212962@bugs.debian.org as a CC to your answers. If the work is on newt indeed, then the bug should probably be reassigned to the newt package. --