fribidi_get_joining_type(3)					Programmer's Manual				       fribidi_get_joining_type(3)

NAME

       fribidi_get_joining_type - get character joining type

SYNOPSIS

       #include <fribidi.h>

       FriBidiJoiningType fribidi_get_joining_type(FriBidiChar ch);

PARAMETERS

       FriBidiChar ch
	      Input character.

DESCRIPTION

       This function returns the joining type of a character as defined in Table 8-2 Primary Arabic Joining Classes of the Unicode standard avail-
       able at http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode4.0.0/ch08.pdf#G7462, using data provided in file ArabicShaping.txt and  UnicodeData.txt	of
       the  Unicode  Character	Database  available  at  http://www.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/ArabicShaping.txt  and  http://www.unicode.org/Pub-
       lic/UNIDATA/UnicodeData.txt.

       There are a few macros defined in fribidi-joining-types.h for querying a joining type.

RETURNS

       Possible values for a FriBidiJoiningType are as follows:
	      FRIBIDI_JOINING_TYPE_U  NUn-joining, e.g. Full Stop.
	      FRIBIDI_JOINING_TYPE_R  Right-joining, e.g. Arabic Letter Dal.
	      FRIBIDI_JOINING_TYPE_D  Dual-joining, e.g. Arabic Letter Ain.
	      FRIBIDI_JOINING_TYPE_C  Join-Causing, e.g. Tatweel, ZWJ.
	      FRIBIDI_JOINING_TYPE_T  Transparent, e.g. Arabic Fatha.
	      FRIBIDI_JOINING_TYPE_L  Left-joining, i.e. Fictional.
	      FRIBIDI_JOINING_TYPE_G  IGnored, e.g. LRE, RLE, ZWNBSP.

SEE ALSO

       fribidi_charset_to_unicode(3),  fribidi_unicode_to_charset(3),  fribidi_parse_charset(3),  fribidi_shape_arabic(3),  fribidi_get_par_direc-
       tion(3),     fribidi_get_par_embedding_levels(3),     fribidi_reorder_line(3),	  fribidi_get_bidi_type(3),	fribidi_get_bidi_types(3),
       fribidi_get_bidi_type_name(3),  fribidi_debug_status(3),  fribidi_mirroring_status(3),  fribidi_set_mirroring(3),  fribidi_reorder_nsm_sta-
       tus(3),	  fribidi_set_reorder_nsm(3),	 fribidi_log2vis_get_embedding_levels(3),    fribidi_get_type(3),    fribidi_get_type_internal(3),
       fribidi_remove_bidi_marks(3), fribidi_log2vis(3), fribidi_join_arabic(3),  fribidi_get_joining_types(3),  fribidi_get_joining_type_name(3),
       fribidi_get_mirror_char(3), fribidi_shape_mirroring(3), fribidi_shape(3)

GNU FriBidi 0.19.2						  30 January 2006				       fribidi_get_joining_type(3)