diff --git a/src/EditProfileDialog.ui b/src/EditProfileDialog.ui
index d057b3ae..ef246786 100644
--- a/src/EditProfileDialog.ui
+++ b/src/EditProfileDialog.ui
@@ -951,7 +951,7 @@
              <string>Enable BiDirectional display on terminals (valid for Arabic, Farsi or Hebrew only)</string>
             </property>
             <property name="text" >
-             <string>Enable BiDi rendering </string>
+             <string>Enable Bi-Directional rendering </string>
             </property>
            </widget>
           </item>
diff --git a/src/Profile.cpp b/src/Profile.cpp
index 2d1a1116..b6fac857 100644
--- a/src/Profile.cpp
+++ b/src/Profile.cpp
@@ -165,6 +165,7 @@ FallbackProfile::FallbackProfile()
     setProperty(BlinkingTextEnabled,true);
     
     setProperty(BlinkingCursorEnabled,false);
+    setProperty(BidiRenderingEnabled,false);
     setProperty(CursorShape,BlockCursor);
     setProperty(UseCustomCursorColor,false);
     setProperty(CustomCursorColor,Qt::black);
diff --git a/src/TerminalDisplay.cpp b/src/TerminalDisplay.cpp
index a83950f1..0016028e 100644
--- a/src/TerminalDisplay.cpp
+++ b/src/TerminalDisplay.cpp
@@ -78,6 +78,10 @@ using namespace Konsole;
 bool TerminalDisplay::_antialiasText = true;
 bool TerminalDisplay::HAVE_TRANSPARENCY = false;
 
+// we use this to force QPainter to display text in LTR mode
+// more information can be found in: http://unicode.org/reports/tr9/ 
+const QChar LTR_OVERRIDE_CHAR( 0x202D );
+
 /* ------------------------------------------------------------------------- */
 /*                                                                           */
 /*                                Colors                                     */
@@ -676,10 +680,11 @@ void TerminalDisplay::drawCharacters(QPainter& painter,
         // the application's default layout direction to be used instead of 
         // the widget-specific layout direction, which should always be
         // Qt::LeftToRight for this widget
+	// This was discussed in: http://lists.kde.org/?t=120552223600002&r=1&w=2
         if (_bidiEnabled)
             painter.drawText(rect,0,text);
         else
-            painter.drawText(rect,0,QChar(0x202D)+text);
+            painter.drawText(rect,0,LTR_OVERRIDE_CHAR+text);
     }
 }