FriBidi-1.0.16

Introduction to FriBidi

The FriBidi package is an implementation of the Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm (BIDI). This is useful for supporting Arabic and Hebrew alphabets in other packages.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS 12.4 platform.

Package Information

FriBidi Dependencies

Optional

c2man (to build man pages)

Installation of FriBidi

Prepare FriBidi by running the following commands:

meson setup build --prefix=/usr --buildtype=release
ninja -C build

To test the results, issue:

ninja -C build test

Now Install, as the root user:

ninja -C build install

Contents

Installed Program: fribidi
Installed Library: libfribidi.so
Installed Directory: /usr/include/fribidi

Short Descriptions

fribidi

is a command-line interface to the libfribidi library and can be used to convert a logical string to visual output

libfribidi.so

contains functions used to implement the Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm