[Bug 173683] New: Review Request: bidiv (BiDi Viewer) - display logical-Hebrew text

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           Summary: Review Request: bidiv (BiDi Viewer) - display logical-
                    Hebrew text
           Product: Fedora Extras
           Version: devel
          Platform: All
               URL: http://ivrix.org.il/redhat/bidiv-1.4-2.i386.rpm
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: normal
         Component: Package Review
        AssignedTo: gdk at redhat.com
        ReportedBy: danken at cs.technion.ac.il
         QAContact: dkl at redhat.com
                CC: fedora-extras-list at redhat.com


Spec Name or Url: http://ivrix.org.il/redhat/bidiv.spec
SRPM Name or Url: http://ivrix.org.il/redhat/bidiv-1.4-2.src.rpm

Description: 
bidiv is a tiny but useful unitility for viewing logical-Hebrew text from within an 8-bit terminal. It is an easy-to-use front-end of fribidi library.

An excerpt of its man page reads:
       bidiv  is  a filter, or viewer, for birectional text stored in logical-
       order, into visual-order 8-bit text which can be  viewed  on  terminals
       that  do  not  handle bidirectionality. The output visual-order text is
       formatted assuming a fixed number of characters per line (automatically
       determined or given with the -w parameter).

       The  current  version  is  oriented towards Hebrew, and therefore reads
       ISO-8859-8-i (logical) encoded text  and  outputs  ISO-8859-8  (visual)
       encoded  text.  However, bidiv can be easily adapted to other encodings
       and right-to-left languages.

I am trying to make Fedora more useful for Hebrew speakers. Adding bidiv to Fedora Extras is one more step in that direction.

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