fribidi_get_joining_type(3)

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🌸 fribidi_get_joining_type 🌸

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✨ NAME ✨

fribidi_get_joining_type — get character joining type 🎀

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

#include <../fribidi/lib/fribidi.h>

FriBidiJoiningType fribidi_get_joining_type(FriBidiChar ch);

🍓 PARAMETERS 🍓

  • FriBidiChar ch — the input character. that's it. that's the one. the character you're curious about, she's the main character here 👑

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so what this function does is it hands you back the joining type of a character — as defined in Table 8-2 Primary Arabic Joining Classes of the Unicode standard, which you can find at http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode4.0.0/ch08.pdf#G7462 🌈

and the data behind the scenes comes from the file ArabicShaping.txt and UnicodeData.txt from the Unicode Character Database, at http://www.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/ArabicShaping.txt and http://www.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/UnicodeData.txt ✨

also there's a little clutch of macros defined in fribidi-joining-types.h for querying a joining type — so you can poke at the result without doing it all by hand 🫶

👑 RETURNS 👑

the possible values for a FriBidiJoiningType are, in their full glory:

  • FRIBIDI_JOINING_TYPE_U — NUn-joining, e.g. Full Stop. (yes the capital N is literally how it's written, no cap, not me fixing it, keeping it iconic 💀)
  • FRIBIDI_JOINING_TYPE_R — Right-joining, e.g. Arabic Letter Dal.
  • FRIBIDI_JOINING_TYPE_D — Dual-joining, e.g. Arabic Letter Ain.
  • FRIBIDI_JOINING_TYPE_C — Join-Causing, e.g. Tatweel, ZWJ.
  • FRIBIDI_JOINING_TYPE_T — Transparent, e.g. Arabic Fatha.
  • FRIBIDI_JOINING_TYPE_L — Left-joining, i.e. Fictional. (she's literally not real, it's giving imaginary friend 🧚)
  • FRIBIDI_JOINING_TYPE_G — IGnored, e.g. LRE, RLE, ZWNBSP.

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

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