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                    is a command-line interface to the  | |
| contains functions used to implement the Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm | 
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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          Development versions of BLFS may not build or run some packages properly if LFS or dependencies have been updated since the most recent stable versions of the books.
Download (HTTP): https://github.com/fribidi/fribidi/releases/download/v1.0.16/fribidi-1.0.16.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 333ad150991097a627755b752b87f9ff
Download size: 1.1 MB
Estimated disk space required: 22 MB (with tests)
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU (with tests)
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.
        
| 
                    is a command-line interface to the  | |
| contains functions used to implement the Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm |