Text-Bidi

This is a perl interface to the libfribidi library that implements the Unicode bidi algorithm. The bidi algorithm is a specification for displaying text that consists of both left-to-right and right-to-left written languages.

PREREQUISITES

The fribidi library should be installed prior to installing this module. It is available from http://fribidi.org . The module was tested with version 0.10.7 of the library.

To re-build the interface files, swig is required. However, the module comes with these files, so swig is not necessary. Swig is available at http://www.swig.org . Version 1.3.31 was used to build the interface files.

INSTALLATION

To install this module, run the following commands:

perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install

As mentioned above, fribidi should be installed. Note that most of the tests during 'make test' will probably fail, because of (apparently) a bug in libfribidi, as described in the pod.

SUPPORT AND DOCUMENTATION

After installing, you can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.

perldoc Text::Bidi

You can also look for information at:

Search CPAN

http://search.cpan.org/dist/Text-Bidi

CPAN Request Tracker:

http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=Text-Bidi

AnnoCPAN, annotated CPAN documentation:

http://annocpan.org/dist/Text-Bidi

CPAN Ratings:

http://cpanratings.perl.org/d/Text-Bidi

COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.