#### Beyond Linux® From Scratch (systemd Edition) - Version 10.1

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# FriBidi-1.0.9

## Introduction to FriBidi

The FriBidi package is an implementation of the Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm (BIDI). This is useful for supporting Arabic and Hebrew alphabets in other packages.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-10.1 platform.

### Package Information

- Download (HTTP): https://github.com/fribidi/fribidi/releases/download/v1.0.9/fribidi-1.0.9.tar.xz

- Download MD5 sum: 1b767c259c3cd8e0c8496970f63c22dc

- Download size: 1.1 MB

- Estimated disk space required: 21 MB

- Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU

### FriBidi Dependencies

#### Optional

c2man (to build man pages)

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/fribidi

## Installation of FriBidi

Install FriBidi by running the following commands:

    mkdir build &&
    cd    build &&

    meson --prefix=/usr .. &&
    ninja

To test the results, issue: ninja test.

Now, as the `root` user:

    ninja install

## Contents

Installed Program: fribidi
Installed Library: libfribidi.so
Installed Directory: /usr/include/fribidi

### Short Descriptions

fribidi | is a command-line interface to the `libfribidi` library and can be used to convert a logical string to visual output
`libfribidi.so` | contains functions used to implement the Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm

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