fribidi_get_bidi_type(3)

fribidi_get_bidi_type3

Get character bidi type

Usage

#include <../fribidi/lib/fribidi.h>

FriBidiCharType fribidi_get_bidi_type(FriBidiChar ch);

Parameters

FriBidiChar ch

Input character.

Overview

This function returns the bidi type of a character as defined in Table 3.7 Bidirectional Character Types of the Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm available at http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr9/#Bidirectional_Character_Types, using data provided in file UnicodeData.txt of the Unicode Character Database available at http://www.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/UnicodeData.txt.

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

Returns

Since there are 23 possible values for a FriBidiCharType, they are not all listed here.

Releases

9 releases since Debian 6.0 (Squeeze); the text changed 6 times.

  1. 6.0–7
  2. 8
  3. 9
  4. 10
  5. 11–12
  6. 13
  7. Arch

From fribidi 1.0.18-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.