fribidi_get_type(3)

💅 fribidi_get_type

okay so real talk, this little icon is from the fribidi Programmer's Manual and she's here to tell you how to grab the bidi type of a character. she's a legacy queen though, so read the description before you get attached 💀

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✨ NAME ✨

fribidi_get_type — get character bidi type 🎀

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

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

FriBidiCharType fribidi_get_type(FriBidiChar ch);

like yes bestie, that's the whole vibe ✨

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🦋 PARAMETERS 🦋

• FriBidiChar ch — the input character. that's it, that's the whole argument. hand her a character and she'll tell you what her bidi type is 🫶

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💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

so… deprecated 😭 not me having to break this to you. this function has been replaced by fribidi_get_bidi_type. she's giving legacy main character energy — still iconic, but fr fr you should be using the replacement.

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⭐ RETURNS ⭐

she returns a FriBidiCharType, and here's the thing — there are 23 possible values for a FriBidiCharType, so they are not all listed here. ngl that's a lot of options and this page is not about to list all twenty-three of them 💅

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

the whole friend group, periodt 👑

• 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_internal(3)
• fribidi_get_par_embedding_levels(3)
• fribidi_join_arabic(3)
• fribidi_get_joining_type(3)
• fribidi_get_joining_types(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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and that's the page, bestie 🧚💖 this lil cutie came to you courtesy of c2man from fribidi-deprecated.h, dated 29 October 2026, under the name fribidi_get_type(3). go forth and use the non-deprecated one, i'm begging 🙈✨