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>
fribidi_get_joining_type(3) ch);
PARAMETERS
FriBidiChar ch
Input character.
DESCRIPTION
This function returns the joining type of a character as defined in Ta-
ble 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/Pub-
lic/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 an extern 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_shape_arabic(3), fribidi_get_par_direction(3),
fribidi_get_par_embedding_levels_ex(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_set_debug(3), fribidi_charset_to_unicode(3), fribidi_uni-
code_to_charset(3), fribidi_parse_charset(3), fribidi_mirroring_sta-
tus(3), fribidi_set_mirroring(3), fribidi_reorder_nsm_status(3),
fribidi_set_reorder_nsm(3), fribidi_log2vis_get_embedding_levels(3),
fribidi_get_type(3), fribidi_get_type_internal(3),
fribidi_get_par_embedding_levels(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_get_bracket(3), fribidi_get_bracket_types(3), fribidi_shape(3),
fribidi_remove_bidi_marks(3), fribidi_log2vis(3)
c2man fribidi-joining-types.h 20 July 2018 fribidi_get_joining_type(3)
fribidi 1.0.9 - Generated Wed Apr 8 13:22:22 CDT 2020