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fribidi(1)

Convert a logical string to visual.

NAME

fribidi - Convert a logical string to visual.

SYNOPSIS

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

DESCRIPTION

A command line interface for the GNU FriBidi library. Convert 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

-d, --debug

Output debug information

-t, --test

Test GNU FriBidi, same as --clean --nobreak --showinput --reordernsm --width 80

-c, --charset CS

Specify character set, default is UTF-8

--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

--novisual

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

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]

Available character sets:

* UTF-8

: UTF-8 (Unicode)

* CapRTL

: CapRTL (Test) X

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

REPORTING BUGS

Report bugs online at <https://github.com/fribidi/fribidi/issues/new>.

History

--changes until Debian 13 (Trixie); -C until Debian 13 (Trixie).