This gist will show the support of BiDirectional text in the terminal emulators and console programs.

How to test

Supporting BiDirectional text

• mlterm
• konsole

Not supporting BiDirectional text

• st (from suckless)

• iterm2

• qterminal

• alacritty - written in Rust

• kitty - uses OpenGL

• cool-retro-term

• Termux - Android platform

• Black Screen - crossplatform, HTML/CSS/JS-based

• Hyper.app - crossplatform, HTML/CSS/JS-based (Electron)

• hterm - HTML/CSS/JS-based (ChromeOS)

• Tera Term - Windows platform

• ConEmu - Windows platform

• FinalTerm - abandoned, iTerm2 borrowing it's ideas and features.

• MacTerm - Mac OS X platform

• mintty Cygwin and MSYS/MSYS2 - Windows platform

• Windows 10 bash console

• all libvte based terminals

  • libvte-based Gnome Terminal - https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/vte/+bug/263822
  • libvte-based sakura
  • libvte-based xfce4-terminal
  • libvte-based Terminator
  • libvte-based Tilix - written in D. Similar user interface as for Terminator.
  • libvte-based Lilyterm - https://github.com/Tetralet/LilyTerm/
  • libvte-based ROXTerm
  • libvte-based evilvte https://github.com/caleb-/evilvte
  • libvte-based Termit
  • libvte-based Termite
  • libvte-based Tilda
  • libvte-based tinyterm
  • libvte-based Pantheon Terminal
  • libvte-based lxterminal

Not supporting BiDirectional text programs

• neovim - neovim/neovim#553 (comment)