Re: Unicode text Direction Detection

[Matthias Clasen <mclasen redhat com>]

On Wed, 2005-08-17 at 17:32 +0530, Gaurav Jain wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a Unicode text, and I need to detect its direction by some BiDi
> algorithm (i.e., whether it is Left-to-right or Right-to-left).  For
> example, I need to look for the first "strong" directional character
> in the text, and find out its direction.  Is there a way I can do that
> using some GTK/GLib APIs?  Something, perhaps, on the line of the
> Windows API GetStringTypeW() perhaps?
>
> Any help in this regard would be appreciated!

Not currently available, but we have an open bug which requests to move
the functionality from gtk to glib and make it public API.