--- /dev/null
+diff --git a/libass/ass_shaper.c b/libass/ass_shaper.c
+index ffcb36b..849b55f 100644
+--- a/libass/ass_shaper.c
++++ b/libass/ass_shaper.c
+@@ -81,8 +81,7 @@ struct ass_shaper_font_data {
+ */
+ void ass_shaper_info(ASS_Library *lib)
+ {
+- ass_msg(lib, MSGL_INFO, "Shaper: FriBidi "
+- FRIBIDI_VERSION " (SIMPLE)"
++ ass_msg(lib, MSGL_INFO, "Shaper: "
+ " HarfBuzz-ng %s (COMPLEX)", hb_version_string()
+ );
+ }
+@@ -686,8 +685,7 @@ static bool shape_harfbuzz(ASS_Shaper *shaper, GlyphInfo *glyphs, size_t len)
+ hb_buffer_add_utf32(buf, shaper->event_text + offset, i - offset + 1,
+ 0, i - offset + 1);
+
+- props.direction = FRIBIDI_LEVEL_IS_RTL(level) ?
+- HB_DIRECTION_RTL : HB_DIRECTION_LTR;
++ props.direction = HB_DIRECTION_LTR;
+ props.script = glyphs[offset].script;
+ props.language = hb_shaper_get_run_language(shaper, props.script);
+ hb_buffer_set_segment_properties(buf, &props);
+@@ -754,33 +752,6 @@ void ass_shaper_determine_script(ASS_Shaper *shaper, GlyphInfo *glyphs,
+ }
+ }
+
+-/**
+- * \brief Shape event text with FriBidi. Does mirroring and simple
+- * Arabic shaping.
+- * \param len number of clusters
+- */
+-static void shape_fribidi(ASS_Shaper *shaper, GlyphInfo *glyphs, size_t len)
+-{
+- int i;
+- FriBidiJoiningType *joins = calloc(sizeof(*joins), len);
+-
+- // shape on codepoint level
+- fribidi_get_joining_types(shaper->event_text, len, joins);
+- fribidi_join_arabic(shaper->ctypes, len, shaper->emblevels, joins);
+- fribidi_shape(FRIBIDI_FLAGS_DEFAULT | FRIBIDI_FLAGS_ARABIC,
+- shaper->emblevels, len, joins, shaper->event_text);
+-
+- // update indexes
+- for (i = 0; i < len; i++) {
+- GlyphInfo *info = glyphs + i;
+- FT_Face face = info->font->faces[info->face_index];
+- info->symbol = shaper->event_text[i];
+- info->glyph_index = FT_Get_Char_Index(face, ass_font_index_magic(face, shaper->event_text[i]));
+- }
+-
+- free(joins);
+-}
+-
+ /**
+ * \brief Toggle kerning for HarfBuzz shaping.
+ * \param shaper shaper instance
+@@ -864,33 +835,6 @@ void ass_shaper_set_bidi_brackets(ASS_Shaper *shaper, bool match_brackets)
+ }
+ #endif
+
+-/**
+- * \brief Remove all zero-width invisible characters from the text.
+- * \param text_info text
+- */
+-static void ass_shaper_skip_characters(TextInfo *text_info)
+-{
+- int i;
+- GlyphInfo *glyphs = text_info->glyphs;
+-
+- for (i = 0; i < text_info->length; i++) {
+- // Skip direction override control characters
+- if ((glyphs[i].symbol <= 0x202e && glyphs[i].symbol >= 0x202a)
+- || (glyphs[i].symbol <= 0x200f && glyphs[i].symbol >= 0x200b)
+- || (glyphs[i].symbol <= 0x206f && glyphs[i].symbol >= 0x2060)
+- || (glyphs[i].symbol <= 0xfe0f && glyphs[i].symbol >= 0xfe00)
+- || (glyphs[i].symbol <= 0xe01ef && glyphs[i].symbol >= 0xe0100)
+- || (glyphs[i].symbol <= 0x180f && glyphs[i].symbol >= 0x180b)
+- || glyphs[i].symbol == 0x061c
+- || glyphs[i].symbol == 0xfeff
+- || glyphs[i].symbol == 0x00ad
+- || glyphs[i].symbol == 0x034f) {
+- glyphs[i].symbol = 0;
+- glyphs[i].skip = true;
+- }
+- }
+-}
+-
+ /**
+ * \brief Shape an event's text. Calculates directional runs and shapes them.
+ * \param text_info event's text
+@@ -898,52 +842,18 @@ static void ass_shaper_skip_characters(TextInfo *text_info)
+ */
+ bool ass_shaper_shape(ASS_Shaper *shaper, TextInfo *text_info)
+ {
+- int i, ret, last_break;
+- FriBidiParType dir;
++ int i;
+ GlyphInfo *glyphs = text_info->glyphs;
+
+ if (!check_allocations(shaper, text_info->length))
+ return false;
+
+ // Get bidi character types and embedding levels
+- last_break = 0;
+ for (i = 0; i < text_info->length; i++) {
+ shaper->event_text[i] = glyphs[i].symbol;
+- // embedding levels should be calculated paragraph by paragraph
+- if (glyphs[i].symbol == '\n' || i == text_info->length - 1) {
+- dir = shaper->base_direction;
+- fribidi_get_bidi_types(shaper->event_text + last_break,
+- i - last_break + 1, shaper->ctypes + last_break);
+-#ifdef USE_FRIBIDI_EX_API
+- FriBidiBracketType *btypes = NULL;
+- if (shaper->bidi_brackets) {
+- btypes = shaper->btypes + last_break;
+- fribidi_get_bracket_types(shaper->event_text + last_break,
+- i - last_break + 1, shaper->ctypes + last_break,
+- btypes);
+- }
+- ret = fribidi_get_par_embedding_levels_ex(
+- shaper->ctypes + last_break, btypes,
+- i - last_break + 1, &dir, shaper->emblevels + last_break);
+-#else
+- ret = fribidi_get_par_embedding_levels(shaper->ctypes + last_break,
+- i - last_break + 1, &dir, shaper->emblevels + last_break);
+-#endif
+- if (ret == 0)
+- return false;
+- last_break = i + 1;
+- }
+ }
+
+- switch (shaper->shaping_level) {
+- case ASS_SHAPING_SIMPLE:
+- shape_fribidi(shaper, glyphs, text_info->length);
+- ass_shaper_skip_characters(text_info);
+- return true;
+- case ASS_SHAPING_COMPLEX:
+- default:
+- return shape_harfbuzz(shaper, glyphs, text_info->length);
+- }
++ return shape_harfbuzz(shaper, glyphs, text_info->length);
+ }
+
+ /**
+@@ -955,7 +865,7 @@ ASS_Shaper *ass_shaper_new(void)
+ if (!shaper)
+ return NULL;
+
+- shaper->base_direction = FRIBIDI_PAR_ON;
++ shaper->base_direction = 0;
+
+ if (!init_features(shaper))
+ goto error;
+@@ -998,25 +908,12 @@ void ass_shaper_cleanup(ASS_Shaper *shaper, TextInfo *text_info)
+ */
+ FriBidiStrIndex *ass_shaper_reorder(ASS_Shaper *shaper, TextInfo *text_info)
+ {
+- int i, ret;
++ int i;
+
+ // Initialize reorder map
+ for (i = 0; i < text_info->length; i++)
+ shaper->cmap[i] = i;
+
+- // Create reorder map line-by-line
+- for (i = 0; i < text_info->n_lines; i++) {
+- LineInfo *line = text_info->lines + i;
+- FriBidiParType dir = FRIBIDI_PAR_ON;
+-
+- ret = fribidi_reorder_line(0,
+- shaper->ctypes + line->offset, line->len, 0, dir,
+- shaper->emblevels + line->offset, NULL,
+- shaper->cmap + line->offset);
+- if (ret == 0)
+- return NULL;
+- }
+-
+ return shaper->cmap;
+ }
+
+@@ -1034,10 +931,5 @@ FriBidiStrIndex *ass_shaper_get_reorder_map(ASS_Shaper *shaper)
+ */
+ FriBidiParType resolve_base_direction(int enc)
+ {
+- switch (enc) {
+- case -1:
+- return FRIBIDI_PAR_ON;
+- default:
+- return FRIBIDI_PAR_LTR;
+- }
++ return 0;
+ }
+diff --git a/libass/ass_shaper.h b/libass/ass_shaper.h
+index 70bec9a..c0ff055 100644
+--- a/libass/ass_shaper.h
++++ b/libass/ass_shaper.h
+@@ -21,13 +21,14 @@
+
+ typedef struct ass_shaper ASS_Shaper;
+
+-#include <fribidi.h>
+ #include <stdbool.h>
+ #include "ass_render.h"
+
+-#if FRIBIDI_MAJOR_VERSION >= 1
+-#define USE_FRIBIDI_EX_API
+-#endif
++typedef uint32_t FriBidiChar;
++typedef uint32_t FriBidiCharType;
++typedef int FriBidiStrIndex;
++typedef int FriBidiParType;
++typedef signed char FriBidiLevel;
+
+ void ass_shaper_info(ASS_Library *lib);
+ ASS_Shaper *ass_shaper_new(void);