BICON(1) General Commands Manual BICON(1) NAME bicon.bin - bidirectional console layer SYNOPSIS bicon.bin [command [arguments...]] DESCRIPTION bicon.bin is a console program that supports bidirectional text display, for languages like Arabic, Persian and Hebrew. bicon.bin hooks into the I/O of the current console to display proper di- rected text using the Unicode BiDi algorithm. Proper directed here includes shaping and joining. bicon.bin does not load the keymap or font. Use bicon(1) to get proper sup- port for your BiDi language, including loading your keymap and font. OPTIONS command is executed by bicon.bin after it loads. If omitted, bicon.bin uses the current SHELL, or /bin/sh if SHELL is undefined. arguments are passed to the command to run. ENVIRONMENT The following environment variables are utilized by script : 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). SEE ALSO bicon(1), screen(1). AUTHOR This manual page was written by Muhammad Alkarouri, of the Arabeyes project. REPORTING BUGS Please report bugs at http://bugs.arabeyes.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/en- ter_bug.cgi?product=BiCon. COPYRIGHT Copyright (C) 2004 Arabeyes Project. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. March 14, 2004 BICON(1)
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