fribidi_get_joining_types(3)

💖 fribidi_get_joining_types(3) 💖

okay so bestie, you found the fribidi_get_joining_types page — it's part of the Programmer's Manual for FriBidi, and it's genuinely the girlypop who tells you how every character in a string joins up with its neighbors 🫶

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🌸 NAME 🌸

fribidi_get_joining_types — literally gets the joining types for a whole string of characters, no cap ✨

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

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

void fribidi_get_joining_types
(
     const FriBidiChar *str,
     const FriBidiStrIndex len,
     FriBidiJoiningType *jtypes
);

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🦋 PARAMETERS 🦋

• const FriBidiChar *str — your input string, mwah 💋
• const FriBidiStrIndex len — the input string's length, obvi
• FriBidiJoiningType *jtypes — the output joining types, this is where the magic lands 👑

so the possible values for a FriBidiJoiningType are, like, exactly these and I'm obsessed:

• FRIBIDI_JOINING_TYPE_U — NUn-joining, e.g. Full Stop.
• 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.
• FRIBIDI_JOINING_TYPE_G — IGnored, e.g. LRE, RLE, ZWNBSP.

(yes the "NU" and "IG" capitalization is fully intentional, don't @ me 💅)

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

okay so what this function does is it finds the joining types of a string of characters — like, the whole string at once, not one at a time, ate and left no crumbs 🔥

and if you want the tea on what these joining types even mean, go read fribidi_get_joining_type — it explains all about the joining types this function hands back to you 🧚

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💜 SEE ALSO 💜

bestie the friend group is huge, here's everyone:

fribidi_shape_arabic(3), fribidi_get_par_direction(3), fribidi_get_par_embedding_levels_ex(3), fribidi_reorder_line(3), fribidi_get_bidi_type(3), fribidi_get_bidi_types(3), fribidi_get_bidi_type_name(3), fribidi_charset_to_unicode(3), fribidi_unicode_to_charset(3), fribidi_parse_charset(3), fribidi_debug_status(3), fribidi_set_debug(3), fribidi_mirroring_status(3), fribidi_set_mirroring(3), fribidi_reorder_nsm_status(3), fribidi_set_reorder_nsm(3), fribidi_log2vis_get_embedding_levels(3), fribidi_get_type(3), fribidi_get_type_internal(3), fribidi_get_par_embedding_levels(3), fribidi_join_arabic(3), fribidi_get_joining_type(3), fribidi_get_joining_type_name(3), fribidi_get_mirror_char(3), fribidi_shape_mirroring(3), fribidi_get_bracket(3), fribidi_get_bracket_types(3), fribidi_shape(3), fribidi_remove_bidi_marks(3), fribidi_log2vis(3)

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ngl this page was generated from fribidi-joining-types.h by c2man, dated 29 October 2026 — so like, shoutout to the tool and the date, slay 💅✨ bye bestie, go join some characters 🦋💖