Fg-optional-arabic.bin Apr 2026

import json import struct def build_binary(rules_json_path, output_bin_path): with open(rules_json_path, 'r', encoding='utf-8') as f: data = json.load(f)

# Write each rule as: input_len (1B), inputs (4B each), output_len (1B), outputs (4B each), priority (1B) for rule in rules: inputs = rule['input'] outputs = rule['output'] if isinstance(rule['output'], list) else [rule['output']]

// ... load rule table from body_offset fclose(f); return hdr; fg-optional-arabic.bin

import struct with open("fg-optional-arabic.bin", "rb") as f: magic = f.read(4) version = struct.unpack("<I", f.read(4))[0] rule_count = struct.unpack("<I", f.read(4))[0] print(f"Magic: magic, Version: version, Rules: rule_count") If you need to create such a file (e.g., for a custom Arabic shaper), follow this pipeline: 3.1 Source Rule Definition (e.g., rules.json ) "version": 2, "language": "ara", "optional_features": [ "name": "lam_alef_ligature", "input": [0x0644, 0x0627], "output": 0xFEF5, "condition": "diacritic_free", "priority": 90 , "name": "kashida_after_alef", "input": [0x0627], "output": [0x0627, 0x0640], "condition": "justify_mode", "priority": 30 ]

# Hypothetical compiler hb-compile-features -f optional-arabic.txt -o fg-optional-arabic.bin 4.1 Loading in a C/C++ Application #include <stdio.h> #include <stdint.h> typedef struct uint32_t magic; uint32_t version; uint32_t rule_count; uint32_t body_offset; FGHeader; import json import struct def build_binary(rules_json_path

body.append(len(inputs)) for ch in inputs: body.extend(struct.pack('<I', ch)) # Unicode codepoint

# Prepare header magic = b'FGOA' version = data['version'] rules = data['optional_features'] rule_count = len(rules) output_bin_path): with open(rules_json_path

import mmap class OptionalArabicRules: def init (self, bin_path): with open(bin_path, 'rb') as f: self.data = mmap.mmap(f.fileno(), 0, access=mmap.ACCESS_READ) self.parse_header()