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.TH FRIBIDI "1" "September 2026" "fribidi -" "User Commands"
.SH NAME
fribidi \- Convert a logical string to visual.
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B fribidi
[\fI\,OPTION\/\fR]... [\fI\,FILE\/\fR]...
.SH DESCRIPTION
A command line interface for the GNU FriBidi library.
Convert a logical string to visual.
.TP
\fB\-h\fR, \fB\-\-help\fR
Display this information and exit
.TP
\fB\-V\fR, \fB\-\-version\fR
Display version information and exit
.TP
\fB\-v\fR, \fB\-\-verbose\fR
Verbose mode, same as \fB\-\-basedir\fR \fB\-\-ltov\fR \fB\-\-vtol\fR
\fB\-\-levels\fR
.TP
\fB\-d\fR, \fB\-\-debug\fR
Output debug information
.TP
\fB\-t\fR, \fB\-\-test\fR
Test GNU FriBidi, same as \fB\-\-clean\fR \fB\-\-nobreak\fR
\fB\-\-showinput\fR \fB\-\-reordernsm\fR \fB\-\-width\fR 80
.TP
\fB\-c\fR, \fB\-\-charset\fR CS
Specify character set, default is UTF\-8
.TP
\fB\-\-charsetdesc\fR CS
Show descriptions for character set CS and exit
.TP
\fB\-\-caprtl\fR
Old style: set character set to CapRTL
.TP
\fB\-\-showinput\fR
Output the input string too
.TP
\fB\-\-nopad\fR
Do not right justify RTL lines
.TP
\fB\-\-nobreak\fR
Do not break long lines
.TP
\fB\-w\fR, \fB\-\-width\fR W
Screen width for padding, default is 80, but if
environment variable COLUMNS is defined, its value
will be used, \fB\-\-width\fR overrides both of them.
.TP
\fB\-B\fR, \fB\-\-bol\fR BOL
Output string BOL before the visual string
.TP
\fB\-E\fR, \fB\-\-eol\fR EOL
Output string EOL after the visual string
.TP
\fB\-\-rtl\fR
Force base direction to RTL
.TP
\fB\-\-ltr\fR
Force base direction to LTR
.TP
\fB\-\-wrtl\fR
Set base direction to RTL if no strong character found
.TP
\fB\-\-wltr\fR
Set base direction to LTR if no strong character found
(default)
.TP
\fB\-\-nomirror\fR
Turn mirroring off, to do it later
.TP
\fB\-\-reordernsm\fR
Reorder NSM sequences to follow their base character
.TP
\fB\-\-clean\fR
Remove explicit format codes in visual string
output, currently does not affect other outputs
.TP
\fB\-\-basedir\fR
Output Base Direction
.TP
\fB\-\-ltov\fR
Output Logical to Visual position map
.TP
\fB\-\-vtol\fR
Output Visual to Logical position map
.TP
\fB\-\-levels\fR
Output Embedding Levels
.TP
\fB\-\-novisual\fR
Do not output the visual string, to be used with
\fB\-\-basedir\fR, \fB\-\-ltov\fR, \fB\-\-vtol\fR, \fB\-\-levels\fR
.IP
All string indexes are zero based
.SS "Output:"
.IP
For each line of input, output something like this:
.IP
[input\-str` => '][BOL][[padding space]visual\-str][EOL]
[\en base\-dir][\en ltov\-map][\en vtol\-map][\en levels]
.SS "Available character sets:"
.TP
* UTF\-8
: UTF\-8 (Unicode)
.TP
* CapRTL
: CapRTL (Test)            X
.IP
* 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 \fB\-\-charsetdesc\fR to see
.SH "REPORTING BUGS"
Report bugs online at
<https://github.com/fribidi/fribidi/issues/new>.