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12 <section id='bidirectional_text'>
13 <title>Bi-directional Text</title>
14 <para>Arabic and Hebrew text require bi-directional text support to be
15 displayed correctly, this means that logical strings should be
16 converted before their visual presentation, so left-to-right and
17 right-to-left sub-strings are determined and reshuffled.
18 In fvwm this is done automatically in window titles, menus,
19 module labels and other places if the fonts used for displaying the
20 text are of one of the charsets that require
21 <emphasis remap='I'>bidi</emphasis>
22 (bi-directional) support. For example, this includes iso8859-6,
23 iso8859-8 and iso10646-1 (unicode), but not other iso8859-* fonts.</para>
25 <para>This bi-directional text support is done using the
26 <emphasis remap='I'>fribidi</emphasis>
27 library compile time option, see
28 <filename>INSTALL.fvwm</filename>.</para>