fribidi_unicode_to_charset(3)

💅 fribidi_unicode_to_charset — NAME

okay so bestie, fribidi_unicode_to_charset is literally the glow-up artist for your text — it converts a string from Unicode into some other charset. this is from the Programmer's Manual, and it ate, no cap 🫶

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

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

FriBidiStrIndex fribidi_unicode_to_charset
(
     FriBidiCharSet char_set,
     const FriBidiChar *us,
     FriBidiStrIndex len,
     char *s
);

look at that signature. main character energy, honestly 👑

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🎀 PARAMETERS 🎀

• FriBidiCharSet char_set — the charset you're converting to. it's giving "destination era" ✨

the possible values for a FriBidiCharSet are, and I'm listing every single one because we don't skip:

• FRIBIDI_CHAR_SET_UTF8 — UTF-8 (Unicode).
• FRIBIDI_CHAR_SET_CAP_RTL — CapRTL (Test).
• FRIBIDI_CHAR_SET_ISO8859_6 — ISO8859-6 (Arabic).
• FRIBIDI_CHAR_SET_ISO8859_8 — ISO8859-8 (Hebrew).
• FRIBIDI_CHAR_SET_CP1255 — CP1255 (MS Hebrew/Yiddish).
• FRIBIDI_CHAR_SET_CP1256 — CP1256 (MS Arabic).

• const FriBidiChar *us — your input Unicode string, the material she's working with 💖
• FriBidiStrIndex len — how long that input string is. yes, you gotta tell her. she's not gonna count for you 🙈
• char *s — the output string, all encoded in char_set. this is where the magic lands, bestie 🪄

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so what does it do? it takes a Unicode string and converts it into a string in another character set. literally that's the vibe. and — this part is important — it also null-terminates the output string, so your s is properly closed off, no loose ends, periodt 💅

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🌸 RETURNS 🌸

the length of the new string. that's the whole return value. iconic brevity ✨

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

the whole friend group, all present and accounted for:

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_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_shape_mirroring(3), fribidi_get_bracket(3), fribidi_get_bracket_types(3), fribidi_shape(3), fribidi_remove_bidi_marks(3), fribidi_log2vis(3)

like I said. the whole group chat. 🫶

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and that's the page, bestie 🎀 this beauty was generated by c2man from fribidi-char-sets.h, dated 29 October 2026 — catch you in the next manpage, mwah 💜✨