How to type a right to left language in terminal?

I have installed **Debian** recently (without a GUI) to learn the CLI and C using the LearnCodeTheHardWay tutorials. Its going well, and I feel at this stage I do not need any GUI. However, one thing I might need is to view, and edit in a right to left language, specifically Arabic using say... nano. Or with sqlite. Is that possible? **EDIT:** VIM or EMACS will be fine also. I do not mind the text editor. Also I would like to do this without install X, or any GUI stuff of any sort. **EDIT:** By Terminal what I understand is the black window with the $ symbol, which is what you get with the default Debian install. Its using Bash, and I use SSH to remote into it.