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mlterm BIDI support

Following is a instruction of setting up mlterm BIDI support.

* Requirement
  mlterm depends on FriBidi (http://fribidi.sf.net) for BIDI rendering, so
  install fribidi ahead.

* Installation
  $ ./configure --enable-fribidi
  ...
  checking for fribidi-config... yes
  ...
  $ make
  $ make install

* Usage
  All you have to do is specify -E utf8 option, that enables bidi by default.
  If your system locale is xx_XX.UTF-8 where UTF-8 encoding is automatically
  selected, you don't have to do anything to enable bidi support.
  
* Note
  mlterm also supports arabic shaping, but not a few unicode fonts has no glyphs
  for it.
  So you may have to add fonts with arabic presentation glyphs to "font"
  configuration file explicitly.