[cairo] Using Pango+Cairo to layout non-standard / international text

[Behdad Esfahbod]

On Thu, 2008-04-10 at 10:38 -0400, robertk54 at aol.com wrote:
> 
> I assumed that to handle right-to-left (i.e. Hebrew) or vertical (i.e.
> Chinese) fonts I would need to adjust the gravity attribute (and
> possibly rotate the text?) but this does not seem to work. 

For right-to-left text, no, you don't need to mess with gravity.  That's
just for vertical.

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