fribidi_shape_mirroring(3)

💅 fribidi_shape_mirroring(3) — the mirroring shaping glow-up

okay so bestie, welcome to the Programmer's Manual page for fribidi_shape_mirroring, and yes we are about to make mirroring characters in right-to-left text make so much sense. grab a boba, this one's cute and short 🍓

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

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

void fribidi_shape_mirroring
(
     const FriBidiLevel *embedding_levels,
     const FriBidiStrIndex len,
     FriBidiChar *str
);

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🎀 PARAMETERS 🎀

• const FriBidiLevel *embedding_levels — the input list of embedding levels, fr fr the exact one you got back from fribidi_get_par_embedding_levels. this is how our function knows which bits of the string are RTL 💜
• const FriBidiStrIndex len — the input string length, obviously, we gotta know how much string we're working with 🌸
• FriBidiChar *str — the string to shape. this is the queen being edited in place, main character energy 👑

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so what does it actually do? this function replaces mirroring characters on right-to-left embeddings in the string with their mirrored equivalent — and where do those equivalents come from? fribidi_get_mirror_char(), periodt. no cap, that's the whole vibe check.

and lore drop: this function implements rule L4 of the Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm, available at http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr9/#L4. iconic behavior honestly 🌈

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

the whole bestie squad, no one left behind:

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_types(3), fribidi_get_joining_type_name(3), fribidi_get_mirror_char(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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ok that's the page!! mwah 💋 this lil handbook was generated by c2man from fribidi-mirroring.h, dated 29 October 2026 — go off, mirroring icon, you ate 🫶✨