GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 311982
Wrong text order of Chinese characters in vertical panel
Last modified: 2005-08-18 17:36:08 UTC
In vertical panel, the order of the text in Chinese(maybe in Japanese) is wrong. For example, "Applications" has been traslated as "ABCD", but the actural order of text being displayed is "DCBA". Anyway, thank you for not rotating the Chinese characters in vertical mode. The standard rendering algorithm of Chinese characters vertically is, one by one from top to bottom, but the characters does not rotate.
It goes the wrong way. Not only the bug have not been fixed, but also you've roated the Chinese characters :( Or, should I reassign this bug into pango?
I think it's a pango bug. (else it's a gtk+ bug)
Pango currently does not support vertical text at all. But looks like a good time to start supporting that. Please attach screenshots.
What's happening is that panel rotates the text clockwise/counterclockwise based on which side of the screen the panel is, and the text rendering happens rotated, which results in what you get right now. What you want is an intelligent rotation that switches to top-to-bottom layout for Chinese and other relevant scripts. Owen, any thoughts?
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 99523 ***
Vertical writing is a "big feature" that would have to be implemented to get the expected behavior for Chinese.