com.ibm.bidiTools.bdlayout
Class ArabicOption

java.lang.Object
  extended by com.ibm.bidiTools.bdlayout.ArabicOption

public class ArabicOption
extends java.lang.Object

This class represents ArabicOption objects and provides initial values for each shaping option.

Arabic text has some special characters that can be converted to different formats, which are characterized by four Arabic options, these options are stored in four Arabic objects. These four options constitute an ArabicOptionSet.

An ArabicOptionSet object contains a value for each of the four Arabic objects which represent the Arabic options. The four options are:

The Arabic options values are pre-defined in this class. Each one represents one possible value of one Arabic option.

For more information on Arabic Shaping options, see: Bidirectional support in IBM SDK: A user guide

Multi-threading considerations: There are no multi-threading concerns for this class because it only defines static final instances.


Field Summary
static ArabicOption LAMALEF_ATBEGIN
          Value identifying At Begin.
static ArabicOption LAMALEF_ATEND
          Value identifying At End.
static ArabicOption LAMALEF_AUTO
          Value identifying Auto.
static ArabicOption LAMALEF_NEAR
          Value identifying Near.
static ArabicOption SEEN_AUTO
          Value identifying Auto.
static ArabicOption SEEN_NEAR
          Value identifying Near.
static ArabicOption TASHKEEL_AUTO
          Value identifying Auto.
static ArabicOption TASHKEEL_CUSTOMIZED_ATBEGIN
          Value identifying Customized At Begin.
static ArabicOption TASHKEEL_CUSTOMIZED_ATEND
          Value identifying Customized At end.
static ArabicOption TASHKEEL_KEEP
          Value identifying Keep Tashkeel.
static ArabicOption YEHHAMZA_AUTO
          Value identifying Auto.
static ArabicOption YEHHAMZA_TWO_CELL_NEAR
          Value identifying Near.
 
Method Summary
 
Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object
equals, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait
 

Field Detail

LAMALEF_NEAR

public static final ArabicOption LAMALEF_NEAR
Value identifying Near.

When converting from visual to implicit code pages, Lam-Alef characters are expanded to Lam plus Alef consuming the blank space next to it. If no blank space is available, the Lam-Alef character remains as is in the Unicode uFExx range.

When converting from implicit to visual code pages, Lam plus Alef sequences are compressed to a unique Lam-Alef character; the space resulting from Lam-Alef compression is positioned next to each generated Lam-Alef character.


LAMALEF_ATBEGIN

public static final ArabicOption LAMALEF_ATBEGIN
Value identifying At Begin.

When converting from visual to implicit code pages, Lam-Alef characters are expanded to Lam plus Alef consuming a blank space at the absolute beginning of the buffer. If no blank space is available, the Lam-Alef character remains as is in the Unicode uFExx range.

When converting from implicit to visual code pages, Lam plus Alef sequences are compressed to a unique Lam-Alef character; the space resulting from Lam-Alef compression is positioned at the absolute beginning of the buffer.


LAMALEF_ATEND

public static final ArabicOption LAMALEF_ATEND
Value identifying At End.

When converting from visual to implicit code pages, Lam-Alef characters are expanded to Lam plus Alef consuming a blank space at the absolute end of the buffer. If no blank space is available, the Lam-Alef character remains as is in the Unicode uFExx range.

When converting from implicit to visual code pages, Lam plus Alef sequences are compressed to a unique Lam-Alef character; the space resulting from Lam-Alef compression is positioned at the absolute end of the buffer.


LAMALEF_AUTO

public static final ArabicOption LAMALEF_AUTO
Value identifying Auto.

When converting from visual to implicit code pages, Lam-Alef characters are expanded to Lam plus Alef consuming a blank space at the beginning of the buffer with respect to the orientation, i.e. buffer[0] in case of left-to-right and buffer[length - 1] in case of right-to-left. If no blank space is available, the Lam-Alef character remains as is in the Unicode uFExx range.

When converting from implicit to visual code pages, Lam plus Alef sequences are compressed to a unique Lam-Alef character; the space resulting from Lam-Alef compression is positioned at the beginning of the buffer with respect to the orientation.


SEEN_NEAR

public static final ArabicOption SEEN_NEAR
Value identifying Near.

Conversion from visual to implicit converts final forms of the Seen family represented by two characters (the three quarters shape and the Tail character) to corresponding final forms represented by one character and a space replacing the Tail. This space is positioned next to the Seen final form.

In conversion from implicit to visual, each final form of characters in the Seen family (represented by one character) is converted to the the corresponding final form of the Seen family that is represented by two characters, consuming the space next to the Seen character. If there is no space available, it will be converted to one character only which is the three quarters shape Seen.


SEEN_AUTO

public static final ArabicOption SEEN_AUTO
Value identifying Auto.

Same behavior as NEAR for this release


YEHHAMZA_TWO_CELL_NEAR

public static final ArabicOption YEHHAMZA_TWO_CELL_NEAR
Value identifying Near.

Conversion from visual to implicit converts each Yeh character followed by a Hamza character to a Yeh-Hamza character; the space resulting from the contraction is positioned next to the Yeh-Hamza character.

In conversion from implicit to visual, each Yeh-Hamza character is expanded to two characters (Yeh and Hamza), consuming the space located next to the original Yeh-Hamza character. If there is no space available, it will be converted to one character which is Yeh.


YEHHAMZA_AUTO

public static final ArabicOption YEHHAMZA_AUTO
Value identifying Auto.

Same behavior as NEAR for this release


TASHKEEL_KEEP

public static final ArabicOption TASHKEEL_KEEP
Value identifying Keep Tashkeel.

No special processing is done


TASHKEEL_CUSTOMIZED_ATBEGIN

public static final ArabicOption TASHKEEL_CUSTOMIZED_ATBEGIN
Value identifying Customized At Begin.

All Tashkeel characters except for Shadda are replaced by spaces. The resulting spaces are moved to the absolute beginning of the buffer.


TASHKEEL_CUSTOMIZED_ATEND

public static final ArabicOption TASHKEEL_CUSTOMIZED_ATEND
Value identifying Customized At end.

All Tashkeel characters except for Shadda are replaced by spaces. The resulting spaces are moved to the absolute end of the buffer.


TASHKEEL_AUTO

public static final ArabicOption TASHKEEL_AUTO
Value identifying Auto.

Same behavior as KEEP for this release