RE: FriBidi perl module doesn't work for me...
Behdad Esfahbod <[email protected]>
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On Mon, 26 Sep 2005, Thurn, Martin wrote:
> Ok I got perl FriBidi working. Thank you for your replies. The trick
> is that the UTF-32 string sent to fribidi has to be LITTLE ENDIAN. So,
> here is some sample code that WORKS:
>
> use Encode;
> use FriBidi;
> my $sLogical = 'imagine some UTF-8 Hebrew text here';
> Encode::from_to($sLogical, 'utf-8', 'UTF-32-LE');
> my ($sVisual, $sDirection) = &log2vis($sLogical);
> # Convert string back to Perl's internal representation:
> my $sVisual = Encode::decode('UTF-32-LE', $sVisual);
> # Now you can insert $sVisual into a Tk Text widget, for example
> __END__
Cool. But note, FriBidi works on machine-endian. Not LE.
Simply converting to 'UTF-32' doesn't work, but 'UTF-32-LE' does?
Weird.
> - - Martin
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