Bidirectional Attributes
The display of Arabic character strings can be configured with a set of bidirectional attributes:
These attributes, defined in the <ilviews/bidi/type.h> header file, are represented by five different enumeration types with various possible values, shown in Enumerations of Bidirectional Attributes. These values are used to retrieve the visual string that will be displayed from the stored logical string.
Bidirectional Attribute | Enumeration |
|---|---|
typedef enum IlvLayoutDirection { IlvLayoutDirectionLeftToRight, IlvLayoutDirectionRightToLeft, IlvLayoutDirectionContextual }; | |
typedef enum IlvNumerals { IlvNumeralsNominal, IlvNumeralsNational, IlvNumeralsContextual }; | |
typedef enum IlvShaping { IlvShapingOff, IlvShapingOn }; | |
typedef enum IlvSwapping { IlvSwappingOff, IlvSwappingOn }; | |
typedef enum IlvWordBreak { IlvWordBreakOff, IlvWordBreakOn }; |
These types and their impact on the shaping of character strings in Arabic or on the objects in which these strings appear are described further in the designated sections.
Published date: 05/24/2022
Last modified date: 02/24/2022
