Width

[seisdr]

./trans :en+ar hi
fribidi: invalid screen width 0' Try fribidi --help' for more information.
fribidi: invalid screen width -4' Try fribidi --help' for more information.

[soimort]

Can you post the output of trans -V on your system?

[seisdr]

`^C
$ ./trans -V
Translate Shell 0.9.6.8-release

platform Linux
gawk (GNU Awk) 4.2.1
fribidi (GNU FriBidi) 1.0.5
audio player [NOT INSTALLED]
terminal pager less
terminal type xterm-256color
user locale en_US.UTF-8 (English)
home language en
source language auto
target language en
translation engine google
proxy [NONE]
user-agent Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/602.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/8.0 Safari/602.1 Epiphany/3.18.2
theme default
init file [NONE]

Report bugs to: https://github.com/soimort/translate-shell/issues
$`

[soimort]

You may try setting the screen width manually and see if that works:

$ ./trans -w 40 :ar hi

[seisdr]

Yep it do but not like previous the words not in the left

[seisdr]

'function initBiDi() { FriBidi = detectProgram("fribidi", "--version", 1) BiDiNoPad = FriBidi ? "fribidi --nopad" : "rev" SUPERR BiDi = FriBidi ? "fribidi --width %s" : "rev" SUPERR "| sed \"s/'/\\\\\\'/\" | xargs printf '%%s '" }'

[seisdr]

--width %s

[seisdr]

always gots problems when I reinstall termux ;(

[soimort]

In case you're on Termux you have to install the ncurses-utils package, something like

$ pkg install ncurses-utils

In order to print right-to-left languages like Arabic on the terminal, trans calls the command tput to determine its screen width, which is provided by ncurses-utils.

You may also hardcode the preferred screen width in your config file, e.g., 80, so that each line will start at position 80, and continues to the left:

{
 ...
 :width 80
}