downloads/development/fribidi.lha

Short:        Free Unicode BiDirectional algorithm
Author:       See AUTHORS file
Uploader:     Fredrik Wikstrom <fredrik a500 org>
Type:         dev/lib
Version:      0.10.9
Architecture: ppc-amigaos
Download:     development/fribidi.lha

Installation:

Copy SDK/#? ALL SDK:
Copy SDK/local/newlib/lib/libfribidi.so SYS:SOBJS/

-- original readme --

This is GNU FriBidi,
a Free Implementation of the Unicode BiDirectional algorithm.

Background
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One of the missing links stopping the penetration of free software in Middle
East is the lack of support for the Arabic and Hebrew alphabets. In order to
have proper Arabic and Hebrew support, the BiDi algorithm should have been
implemented. It is our hope that this library will stimulate more free
software in the Middle Eastern countries.

Audience
========
It is our hope that this library will stimulate the implementation of Hebrew
and Arabic in lots of free software. Here is a small list of projects that
would benifit from the use of the GNU FriBidi library, but of course there are
many more: Wine, Mozilla, Qt, KDE, lynx, OpenOffice.

It may be interesting for you to know that Fribidi is already being used in
projects like Gnome, GTK+, Pango, AbiWord, and Xterm.

Downloading
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The latest version of GNU FriBidi may be found at:

http://fribidi.org/