fribidi_unicode_to_charset(3)

fribidi_unicode_to_charset3

Convert string from unicode

Usage

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

FriBidiStrIndex fribidi_unicode_to_charset
(

FriBidiCharSet char_set,

const FriBidiChar *us,

FriBidiStrIndex len,

char *s
);

Parameters

FriBidiCharSet char_set

Character set to convert to.

Possible values for a FriBidiCharSet are as follows:

FRIBIDI_CHAR_SET_UTF8

UTF-8 (Unicode).

FRIBIDI_CHAR_SET_CAP_RTL

CapRTL (Test).

FRIBIDI_CHAR_SET_ISO8859_6

ISO8859-6 (Arabic).

FRIBIDI_CHAR_SET_ISO8859_8

ISO8859-8 (Hebrew).

FRIBIDI_CHAR_SET_CP1255

CP1255 (MS Hebrew/Yiddish).

FRIBIDI_CHAR_SET_CP1256

CP1256 (MS Arabic).

const FriBidiChar *us

Input Unicode string.

FriBidiStrIndex len

Input string length.

char *s

Output string encoded in char_set.

Overview

This function converts a Unicode string to a string in another character set. It also null-terminates the output string.

Returns

The length of the new string.

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.