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FRIBIDI

Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: April 2003
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NAME

fribidi - a command line interface for the fribidi library, converts a logical string to visual

 

SYNOPSIS

fribidi [OPTION]... [FILE]...  

DESCRIPTION

A command line interface for the fribidi library, Converts a logical string to visual.

-h, --help

Display this information and exit

-V, --version

Display version information and exit

-v, --verbose

Verbose mode, same as --basedir --ltov --vtol \ --levels --changes

-d, --debug

Output debug information

-t, --test

Test fribidi, same as --clean --nobreak --showinput \ --reordernsm

-c, --charset CS

Specify character set, default is UTF-8

-C, --charsetdesc CS

Show descriptions for character set CS and exit

--caprtl

Old style: set character set to CapRTL

--showinput

Output the input string too

--nopad

Do not right justify RTL lines

--nobreak

Do not break long lines

-w, --width W

Screen width for padding, default is 80, but if \ environment variable COLUMNS is defined, its value \ will be used, --width overrides both of them.\

-B, --bol BOL

Output string BOL before the visual string

-E, --eol EOL

Output string EOL after the visual string

--rtl

Force base direction to RTL

--ltr

Force base direction to LTR

--wrtl

Set base direction to RTL if no strong character found

--wltr

Set base direction to LTR if no strong character found \ (default)

--nomirror

Turn mirroring off, to do it later

--reordernsm

Reorder NSM sequences to follow their base character

--clean

Remove explicit format codes in visual string \ output, currently does not affect other outputs

--basedir

Output Base Direction

--ltov

Output Logical to Visual position map

--vtol

Output Visual to Logical position map

--levels

Output Embedding Levels

--changes

Output information about changes between \ logical and visual string (start, length)

--novisual

Do not output the visual string, to be used with \ --basedir, --ltov, --vtol, --levels, --changes

All string indexes are zero based

 

Output:

For each line of input, output something like this:

[input-str` => '][BOL][[padding space]visual-str][EOL] [\n base-dir][\n ltov-map][\n vtol-map][\n levels][\n changes]

 

Available character sets:

* UTF-8

: UTF-8 (Unicode)

* CapRTL

: CapRTL (Test) X

* ISO8859-6 : ISO 8859-6 (Arabic) * ISO8859-8 : ISO 8859-8 (Hebrew) * CP1255 : CP1255 (Hebrew/Yiddish) * CP1256 : CP1256 (MS-Arabic) * ISIRI-3342: ISIRI 3342 (Persian) X: Character set has descriptions, use --charsetdesc to see

 

REPORTING BUGS

Report bugs online at <http://fribidi.sourceforge.net/bugs.php>.

interface version 2 Unicode version 3.2.0  

COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2002 FriBidi Project (http://fribidi.sf.net/). fribidi comes with NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. You may redistribute copies of fribidi under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License. For more information about these matters, see the files named COPYING.

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Index

NAME

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

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Available character sets:

REPORTING BUGS

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