Function

Pangofind_base_dir

since: 1.4

Declaration [src] 

PangoDirection
pango_find_base_dir (
  const gchar* text,
  gint length
)

Description [src]

Searches a string the first character that has a strong direction, according to the Unicode bidirectional algorithm.

Available since: 1.4

Parameters

text

Type: const gchar*

The text to process. Must be valid UTF-8

The data is owned by the caller of the function.
The value is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string.
length

Type: gint

Length of text in bytes (may be -1 if text is nul-terminated)

Return value

Type: PangoDirection

The direction corresponding to the first strong character. If no such character is found, then PANGO_DIRECTION_NEUTRAL is returned.