BICON(1) General Commands Manual BICON(1) NAME bicon - a bidirectional console SYNOPSIS bicon [isocode] [command [arguments...]] DESCRIPTION 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 load- ing 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. OPTIONS 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 cur- rent SHELL , or /bin/sh if SHELL is undefined. arguments are passed to the command to run. ENVIRONMENT 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 deter- mine 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. SEE ALSO bicon.bin(1), unicode_start(1), unicode_stop(1), loadkeys(1), dumpkeys(1), kbd_mode(1), setfont(8), setxkbmap(1), xkbcomp(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 28, 2004 BICON(1)
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