fribidi_get_joining_type

Section: Programmer's Manual (3)
Updated: 19 February 2018
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NAME

fribidi_get_joining_type - get character joining type  

SYNOPSIS

#include <fribidi.h>

extern FriBidiJoiningType fribidi_get_joining_type(FriBidiChar ch);  

PARAMETERS

FriBidiChar ch
Input character.
 

DESCRIPTION

This function returns the joining type of a character as defined in Table 8-2 Primary Arabic Joining Classes of the Unicode standard available 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/Public/UNIDATA/ArabicShaping.txt and http://www.unicode.org/Public/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_unicode_to_charset(3), fribidi_parse_charset(3), fribidi_mirroring_status(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_remove_bidi_marks(3), fribidi_log2vis(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)


 

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SEE ALSO