fribidi(1)
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NAME
fribidi - A command line interface for the GNU FriBidi library.
SYNOPSIS
fribidi [OPTION]... [FILE]...
DESCRIPTION
A command line interface for the GNU FriBidi library. Convert 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
- -d, --debug
- Output debug information
- -t, --test
- Test GNU FriBidi, same as --clean --nobreak --showinput --reordernsm --width 80
- -c, --charset CS
- Specify character set, default is UTF-8
- --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 overrides 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
- --novisual
- Do not output the visual string, to be used with --basedir, --ltov, --vtol, --levels
- All string indexes are zero based
Output:
- For each line of input, output something like this:
- [input-str` => '][BOL][[padding space]visual-str][EOL] [\n base-dir][\n ltov-map][\n vtol-map][\n levels]
Available character sets:
- * UTF-8
- : UTF-8 (Unicode)
- * CapRTL
- : CapRTL (Test) X
- * ISO8859-6 : ISO8859-6 (Arabic) * ISO8859-8 : ISO8859-8 (Hebrew) * CP1255 : CP1255 (MS Hebrew/Yiddish) * CP1256 : CP1256 (MS Arabic) X: Character set has descriptions, use --charsetdesc to see
REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs online at <https://github.com/fribidi/fribidi/issues/new>.
| September 2026 | fribidi - |