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This is is FriBidi, a Free Implementation of the Unicode BiDi algorithm.
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Background
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One of the missing links stopping the penetration of free software in
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Israel is the lack of support for Hebrew. In order to have proper
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Hebrew support, the BiDi algorithm must be implemented. It is my hope
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that this library will stimulate more Hebrew free software.
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Of course the BiDi algorithm is not limited to Hebrew, so I expect
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that our Arab neighbors will also find this software useful.
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Audience
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It is my hope that this library will stimulate the implementation of
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Hebrew and Arabic in lots of free software. Here is a small list of
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projects that would benifit from the use of the FriBidi library, but
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of course there are many more: Wine, Mozilla, Gtk, Gnome, Qt, KDE,
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AbiWord, lynx.
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WWW: http://imagic.weizmann.ac.il/~dov/freesw/FriBidi/
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