Using fribidi to add bidirectional support to kitty

[ReemKish]

The config documentation hints the possibilty of using the fribidi commandline utility to get BIDI support in kitty:

force_ltr no

#: kitty does not support BIDI (bidirectional text), however, for RTL
#: scripts, words are automatically displayed in RTL. That is to say,
#: in an RTL script, the words "HELLO WORLD" display in kitty as
#: "WORLD HELLO", and if you try to select a substring of an RTL-
#: shaped string, you will get the character that would be there had
#: the the string been LTR. For example, assuming the Hebrew word
#: ירושלים, selecting the character that on the screen appears to be ם
#: actually writes into the selection buffer the character י.  kitty's
#: default behavior is useful in conjunction with a filter to reverse
#: the word order, however, if you wish to manipulate RTL glyphs, it
#: can be very challenging to work with, so this option is provided to
#: turn it off. Furthermore, this option can be used with the command
#: line program GNU FriBidi
#: <https://github.com/fribidi/fribidi#executable> to get BIDI
#: support, because it will force kitty to always treat the text as
#: LTR, which FriBidi expects for terminals.

However, I couldn't figure out how to use fribidi in conjuction with kitty to achieve BIDI support. Seeing as fribidi is not widely used, I was not able to find an answer on the internet. Anyone got an idea?

[kovidgoyal]

This is @ctrlcctrlv baby maybe he can help

[a-essawy]

Bump!

[ctrlcctrlv]

What's the question?

exec 4<>`mktemp` 5<>`mktemp`
curl -o - 'https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%90%D7%9C%D7%95%D7%94%D7%99%D7%9D_(%D7%99%D7%94%D7%93%D7%95%D7%AA)' >&4 2>/dev/null
pandoc -f html -t plain -i /dev/fd/4 -o /dev/fd/5
fribidi <&5 | less

[firubat]

Well my instance of the question would be "how do I use FriBidi to be able to use neovim in Kitty to properly edit files which contain both Hebrew and Latin script, e.g. a TeX file with Hebrew text?"
Is this possible?

[DorBreger]

Would love to know too