Bug#824534: mate-terminal: does not display bidirectional text correctly

[Egmont Koblinger <egmont@gmail.com>]

Hi,

> do you know if simply upgrading to this libvte version fixes
> the issue of this bug report?

Yes, all you need is a newer libvte. It's already in Debian's experimental repo.

> (What is BiDi support in a terminal at all, anyway? What locale uses
> it? Or for what context is it used? How can one enable it?)

It's enabled by default, can be disabled using escape sequences. (Can
also be disabled using an API, but that's meant to be a last resort
kill switch, and needs small work in mate-terminal if you want to do
it. It's not important to have it.) The locale does not matter.

BiDi was implemented based on the proposal at
https://terminal-wg.pages.freedesktop.org/bidi/ , see there for
further details.

e.