================================= BiCon - The Bidirectional Console

Dependencies

• FriBiDi >= 0.10.4 (library AND headers)

Installation

You need the FriBidi library to compile this program. Probably you have it in your distribution. If not, get it from http://fribidi.org/

Installation is simple, the usual steps:

./autogen.sh
./configure
make
make install

Usage

This program currently can be used under Linux console, or terminal emulators with basic Unicode rendering support, like gnome-terminal, xterm, or PuTTY.

Simply run "bicon" to get a console supporting Arabic or Persian. The language used is chosen according to the LANG environment variable.

You can also choose the language country by specifying the country on the country on the command line, e.g ::

bicon sa          # enables Arabic (Saudi Arabia) support
bicon ir          # for Persian (Iran)

You can use the alt+shift combination to switch keyboard language.

Of course, you have a man page bicon(1) to check.

Reporting Bugs

Please report all bugs to http://github.com/behdad/bicon