Re: About Pango direction

[Girish <girish picopeta com>]

Girish wrote:

> hi all ,
>
>    i have one doubt , any one please clarify me.....
> i built a text editor using Pango . Initially i was not mentioned the 
> base direction (i.e PANGO_DIRECTION_LTR). so Pango was able to find 
> the base direction automatically. In this case for  numeric, 
> punctuations  it was  selecting  the direction " 
> PANGO_DIRECTION_LTR_WEAk" when pango_layout_move_cursor_visually() 
> called and it was giving unexpected(sometimes G_MAX_INT or 0) output. 
> after mentioning base direction while creating the PAngo_context() it 
> is working fine.
> but i am understanding why its behaving like this , is it necessary to 
> mention base_dir to render layout and for editing ?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Girish
i am NOT understanding why its behaving like this , is it necessary to 
mention base_dir to render layout and for editing ? and i am presently 
using Indic scripts and Xft backend.


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