1BICON(1)                    General Commands Manual                   BICON(1)
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NAME

6       bicon - a bidirectional console
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SYNOPSIS

9       bicon [isocode] [command [arguments...]]
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DESCRIPTION

12       Bicon  is  a  console program that supports bidirectional text display,
13       for languages like Arabic, Persian and Hebrew.
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15       bicon uses bicon.bin(1) to do the real  bidi/joining  conversion  after
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18       While using bicon you can switch between Arabic and English, or between
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OPTIONS

23       isocode
24              The two letter ISO country code,  in  small  letters.   If  left
25              empty, the derived value from the LANG variable is used instead.
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28       command
29              is  executed by bicon after it loads. If omitted, bicon uses the
30              current SHELL , or /bin/sh if SHELL is undefined.
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ENVIRONMENT

38       The following environment variables are utilized by bicon :
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41       SHELL  If the variable SHELL exists, the shell forked by bicon will  be
42              that  shell.  If  SHELL is not set, the Bourne shell is assumed.
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46       LANG   If isocode is not passed to bicon ,  it  will  examine  LANG  to
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50       TERM   Variable  TERM  is  examined in case to determine how to set the
51              keymap and font.  Recognized values are  linux  and  xterm  cur‐
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56              If the value of TERM is xterm, then DISPLAY is examined by bicon
57              to find the X server to contant to load the keymap.
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SEE ALSO

61       bicon.bin(1),  unicode_start(1),  unicode_stop(1),  loadkeys(1),  dump‐
62       keys(1), kbd_mode(1), setfont(8), setxkbmap(1), xkbcomp(1).
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AUTHOR

66       This  manual  page  was  written by Muhammad Alkarouri, of the Arabeyes
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REPORTING BUGS

71       Please      report      bugs      at      http://bugs.arabeyes.org/cgi-
72       bin/bugzilla/enter_bug.cgi?product=BiCon.
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76       Copyright  ©  2004  Arabeyes  Project.   This is free software; see the
77       source for copying conditions.  There is NO warranty; not even for MER‐
78       CHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
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83                                March 28, 2004                        BICON(1)
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