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FRIBIDI(1) User Commands FRIBIDI(1)

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

fribidi [OPTION]... [FILE]...

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

Display this information and exit
Display version information and exit
Verbose mode, same as --basedir --ltov --vtol \ --levels --changes
Output debug information
Test fribidi, same as --clean --nobreak --showinput \ --reordernsm
Specify character set, default is UTF-8
Show descriptions for character set CS and exit
Old style: set character set to CapRTL
Output the input string too
Do not right justify RTL lines
Do not break long lines
Screen width for padding, default is 80, but if \ environment variable COLUMNS is defined, its value \ will be used, --width overrides both of them.\
Output string BOL before the visual string
Output string EOL after the visual string
Force base direction to RTL
Force base direction to LTR
Set base direction to RTL if no strong character found
Set base direction to LTR if no strong character found \ (default)
Turn mirroring off, to do it later
Reorder NSM sequences to follow their base character
Remove explicit format codes in visual string \ output, currently does not affect other outputs
Output Base Direction
Output Logical to Visual position map
Output Visual to Logical position map
Output Embedding Levels
Output information about changes between \ logical and visual string (start, length)
Do not output the visual string, to be used with \ --basedir, --ltov, --vtol, --levels, --changes
All string indexes are zero based

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]

* 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)

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

interface version 2 Unicode version 3.2.0

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.

April 2003 fribidi 0.10.5