On Sat, 27 Aug 2011, Yaron Shahrabani wrote: [...]
Microsoft had this decision in Windows XP, many DOS apps that were supported until Windows 98 were no longer supported and had to search for alternative or keep using an unsupported operating system.
I did some tests in Windows 7. cmd, ipconfig and net are translated to French but not to Russian (LTR), Japanese (LTR) or Hebrew (RTL). So I don't know if it would support the output of RTL strings from console applications such as usage or error messages. If anyone knows of an application I could test.
In all cases the prompt is LTR (the path itself being an LTR string anyway: c:\Users...).