Re: About Pango direction

[Girish <girish picopeta com>]

Behdad Esfahbod wrote:

> On Mon, 3 Oct 2005, 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 ?
> >    
>
> Hi there,
>
> I believe this has been fixed in Pango 1.10:
>
> 2005-07-25  Owen Taylor  <otaylor redhat com>
>
>        * pango/pango-layout.c (line_set_resolved_dir): Always set
>        line->resolved_dir to one of LTR or RTL. (#171439, Reported
>        by Chris Blizzard)
>
>
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=171439
>
>
>  
>
> > Thanks in advance
> >
> > Girish
> >    
>
> Cheers,
> --behdad
> http://behdad.org/
>
>  

Thanks Behdad for your reponse , i got what i want...


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