| Extracted from Pike v7.8 release 866 at 2018-02-09.

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GTK2.Pango.Layout

# Method GTK2.Pango.Layout()->set_auto_dir()

Method set_auto_dir

  `Pango.Layout set_auto_dir(int auto_dir)`

Description

  Sets whether to calculate the bidirectional base direction for the layout according to the contents of the layout; when this flag is on (the default), then paragraphs that begin with strong right-to-left characters (Arabic and Hebrew principally), will have right-left-layout, paragraphs with letters from other scripts will have left-to-right layout. Paragraphs with only neutral characters get their direction from the surrounding paragraphs.

  When false, the choice between left-to-right and right-to-left layout is done by according to the base direction of the Pango.Context.