[FriBidi] Converting visual to logical string

Kenneth M Horan khoran at csc.com
Tue Aug 16 09:45:24 PDT 2005


>I don't understand what you're talking about.  We don't have
>anything like that in FriBidi!

Ah yes, that was my retarded evil twin typing.  I hate it when he gets 
onto my computer!  The files that he was testing with contained examples 
showing how Arabic handwriting often has obviously misplaced dots.  For 
some reason he decided fribidi was generating those correction messages, 
when in fact it was really just printing out the documents.  *sigh*

So far it looks like this does the trick.
fribidi --nopad --nobreak --nomirror

I've looked over a couple files side-by-side with ParsNegar and Word XP 
and they seem to match up so far, however there are some problems 
particularly with dates.  For example, on a RTL line the date "12/23/2004" 
becomes "2004/23/12".  Unfortunately these documents are littered with 
dates so this is a problem.  I'll keep playing with it and see if I can 
come up with anything, but dates have always been a headache for me.

Ken Horan
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