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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.
| April 2003 | fribidi 0.10.5 |