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NAME
       fribidi - Convert a logical string to visual.

SYNOPSIS
       fribidi [OPTION]... [FILE]...

DESCRIPTION
       A command line interface for the GNU FriBidi library.  Convert a
       logical string to visual.

       -h, --help
              Display this information and exit

       -V, --version
              Display version information and exit

       -v, --verbose
              Verbose mode, same as --basedir --ltov --vtol --levels

       -d, --debug
              Output debug information

       -t, --test
              Test GNU FriBidi, same as --clean --nobreak --showinput
              --reordernsm --width 80

       -c, --charset CS
              Specify character set, default is UTF-8

       --charsetdesc CS
              Show descriptions for character set CS and exit

       --caprtl
              Old style: set character set to CapRTL

       --showinput
              Output the input string too

       --nopad
              Do not right justify RTL lines

       --nobreak
              Do not break long lines

       -w, --width W
              Screen width for padding, default is 80, but if environment
              variable COLUMNS is defined, its value will be used, --width
              overrides both of them.

       -B, --bol BOL
              Output string BOL before the visual string

       -E, --eol EOL
              Output string EOL after the visual string

       --rtl  Force base direction to RTL

       --ltr  Force base direction to LTR

       --wrtl Set base direction to RTL if no strong character found

       --wltr Set base direction to LTR if no strong character found (default)

       --nomirror
              Turn mirroring off, to do it later

       --reordernsm
              Reorder NSM sequences to follow their base character

       --clean
              Remove explicit format codes in visual string output, currently
              does not affect other outputs

       --basedir
              Output Base Direction

       --ltov Output Logical to Visual position map

       --vtol Output Visual to Logical position map

       --levels
              Output Embedding Levels

       --novisual
              Do not output the visual string, to be used with --basedir,
              --ltov, --vtol, --levels

              All string indexes are zero based

   Output:
              For each line of input, output something like this:

              [input-str` => '][BOL][[padding space]visual-str][EOL] [\n
              base-dir][\n ltov-map][\n vtol-map][\n levels]

   Available character sets:
       * UTF-8
              : UTF-8 (Unicode)

       * CapRTL
              : CapRTL (Test)            X

              * 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
              --charsetdesc to see

REPORTING BUGS
       Report bugs online at <https://github.com/fribidi/fribidi/issues/new>.

fribidi -                       September 2026                      FRIBIDI(1)