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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 over-
	      rides 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] [
 base-dir][
 ltov-map][
 vtol-map][
 levels][
 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 (C) 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.

fribidi 0.10.5							    April 2003								FRIBIDI(1)