The FriBidi package is an implementation of the Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm (BIDI). This is useful for supporting Arabic and Hebrew alphabets in other packages.
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Download (HTTP): https://github.com/fribidi/fribidi/releases/download/v1.0.13/fribidi-1.0.13.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 49b17442e0d8fa2e97b5c898078f6f51
Download size: 1.1 MB
Estimated disk space required: 21 MB (with tests)
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU (with tests)
User Notes: https://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/fribidi
Install FriBidi by running the following commands:
mkdir build && cd build && meson setup --prefix=/usr --buildtype=release .. && ninja
To test the results, issue: ninja test.
Now, as the root user:
ninja install
--buildtype=release:
Specify a buildtype suitable for stable releases of the package, as
the default may produce unoptimized binaries.
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contains functions used to implement the Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm |