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Annoucement of FriBidi 0.1.0 - A free BiDi library



I am proud to announce the first alpha version of a FriBidi, a 
Free BiDi library that adhers closely to the Unicode BiDi algorithm.

FriBidi is written in C and should provide a common API that will 
facilitate porting of various software to support bi-directional
locals.

FriBidi may be found at:

   http://imagic.weizmann.ac.il/~dov/freesw/FriBidi

Here is an example of what the library can do, where capital letters
are treated as having Right-To-Left direction.

car is THE CAR in arabic            => car is RAC EHT in arabic           
CAR IS the car IN ENGLISH           =>           HSILGNE NI the car SI RAC
he said "IT IS 123, 456, OK"        => he said "KO ,456 ,123 SI TI"       
he said "IT IS (123, 456), OK"      => he said "KO ,(456 ,123) SI TI"     
he said "IT IS 123,456, OK"         => he said "KO ,123,456 SI TI"        
he said "IT IS (123,456), OK"       => he said "KO ,(123,456) SI TI"      
HE SAID "it is 123, 456, ok"        =>        "it is 123, 456, ok" DIAS EH
<H123>shalom</H123>                 =>                 <123H/>shalom<123H>
<h123>SAALAM</h123>                 => <h123>MALAAS</h123>                
HE SAID "it is a car!" AND RUN      =>      NUR DNA "!it is a car" DIAS EH
HE SAID "it is a car!x" AND RUN     =>     NUR DNA "it is a car!x" DIAS EH

--
Dov Grobgeld
dov@imagic.weizmann.ac.il