translate English to French: The second is via the more common ubiquitous command-line in cooperation with a UTF-8 enabled shell. The command-line method, of course, will have to be used in conjunction with an Arabic-enabled Xterminal or terminal emulator (such as mlterm or PuTTY ).
Les shells, même bash qui contient le support de l'UTF-8, ne permettent pas d'entrer de l'arabe depuis le prompt.