bicon - Man Page

a bidirectional console

Synopsis

bicon [isocode] [command [arguments...]]

Bicon is a console program that supports bidirectional text display, for languages like Arabic, Persian and Hebrew.

bicon uses bicon.bin(1) to do the real bidi/joining conversion after loading a suitable keymap and font.

While using bicon you can switch between Arabic and English, or between Persian and English, using the Alt-Shift key combination.

isocode: The two letter ISO country code, in small letters. If left empty, the derived value from the LANG variable is used instead.
command: is executed by bicon after it loads. If omitted, bicon uses the current SHELL , or /bin/sh if SHELL is undefined.
arguments: are passed to the command to run.

The following environment variables are utilized by bicon :

SHELL: If the variable SHELL exists, the shell forked by bicon will be that shell. If SHELL is not set, the Bourne shell is assumed. (Most shells set this variable automatically).
LANG: If isocode is not passed to bicon , it will examine LANG to determine the desired language.
TERM: Variable TERM is examined in case to determine how to set the keymap and font. Recognized values are linux and xterm currently.
DISPLAY: If the value of TERM is xterm, then DISPLAY is examined by bicon to find the X server to contant to load the keymap.