Re: Converting visual to logical string

On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 04:17:19PM -0400, Kenneth M Horan wrote:
>         I have some documents created using ParsNegar which stores 
> characters in visual order that I would like to convert to Unicode.  I've 
> translated each ParsNegar character to its correct Unicode value, however 
> I've been unable to convert the string into the correct logical order. 
> Everywhere I've looked I haven't been able to find a single thing about 
> how to do this.  Fribidi looks like it would be great for testing if I've 
> encoded the text correctly, but I have no clue how to encode it!  I was 
> reeeeeally hoping to find a fribidi_vis2log() function but unfortunately I 
> don't see it.  Surely I'm not the first person who has ever wanted to 
> create a logical string from a visual one.  Can anyone help me out?

A simple hueristic would be to use fribidi_log2vis. It would work well
for most cases.

If you could provide cases where it works badly enough and a
fribidi_vis2log should be tuned otherwise it may be worth adding. But
until then you'd probably be better off using log2vis.

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