findBaseDir

fun findBaseDir(text: String, length: <Error class: unknown class>): Direction

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

Return

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

Since

1.4

Parameters

text

the text to process. Must be valid UTF-8

length

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