fribidi_set_mirroring(3)

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version 1.0.18 · 5 versions
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💅 fribidi_set_mirroring(3) — the Programmer's Manual moment 🎀

okay so bestie, welcome to the fribidi_set_mirroring page ✨ this is like, a tiny little function that lives in the fribidi fam and it does exactly one (1) job. she's small, she's deprecated, she's still here. respect her 💖

✨ NAME ✨

fribidi_set_mirroring — set mirroring on or off 🪞

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

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

fribidi_boolean fribidi_set_mirroring(fribidi_boolean state);

🌸 PARAMETERS 🌸

  • fribidi_boolean state — the new state you wanna set, bestie. that's the whole parameter. one (1) little boolean. that's it. that's the tea 🍵

💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

okay so this function turns character mirroring on or off, no cap. and what even is character mirroring? i'm so glad you asked 🫶

character mirroring is the act of replacing a mirrorable glyph (character) with the matching glyph — like, for example, swapping a Left parenthesis for a Right parenthesis — but only in a right-to-left resolved context. it's giving "flip it and reverse it" but make it typography ✨

so if your rendering engine already does the mirroring itself, lowkey you might wanna turn it off here. like, two mirrorers is one mirrorer too many, yk? 😭

this flag is on by default — she comes out the box already slaying 💅

⚠️ heads up bestie: this function is deprecated and is only used with other deprecated functions. so like, she's iconic but she's also a legacy queen 👑

🔥 RETURNS 🔥

the new mirroring status — fr fr, that's what you get back 💖

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

the whole friend group 🫶 iykyk:

and that's the page, bestie! 🎀 mwah 💋

this lil cutie was generated by c2man from fribidi-deprecated.h, dated 29 October 2026 — so yeah, she's got a timestamp and she's proud of it ⭐👑

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