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How to enable Arabic support in GNOME terminal?
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rtl support in gnome terminal.md 
sudo apt-get install libfribidi0 libfribidi-dev

Download the appropriate package from here

vim /usr/share/applications/gnome-terminal.desktop

add this

Terminal=true
Exec=/usr/bin/bicon.bin

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GNOME Terminal 3.34 supports Arabic out of the box, no need to use bicon anymore.

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