Prolonged sound mark (U+30FC) wrong in vertical text

[Zeimusu-users]

The Japanese "Hiragana Katakana Prolonged Vowel sound mark" (unicode 30FC)
is displayed incorrectly when set in vertical text.

Japanese writing requires that in horizontal text (left to right) this
character should be a horizontal line. In vertical text (Top to bottom) it
should be a vertical line.

Inkscape (2007 August 03 build) does not rotate this glyph when set in
vertical text.

The attached file contains some text which is being rendered improperly,
that same text converted to paths for the sake of those without required
font (ariel unicode), and an example of the correct rendering.

The same problem probably affects certain other characters: Brackets, small
hiragana and katakana, and punctuation. (see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tategaki)

[Zeimusu-users (zeimusu-users)]

Originator: YES

By the way, pango 1.17.0 claims to do this right:
http://mces.blogspot.com/2007/05/advanced-opentype-features-in-pango.html .
Currently inkscape uses 1.16.4 on windows. Assign to ishmal.

[Zeimusu-users (zeimusu-users)]

Originator: YES

I've tried this again with pango 2.18 and glib 2.14 from gnome.
Unfortunately the bug isn't fixed by simply using new libraries.

[Maxime (x-organigramme)]

This is still a problem for me, running Inkscape 0.47pre4 r22446, built Oct 15 2009 on Ubuntu. Has there been any progress on this? I would really like to input Japanese vertical text.

[Beluga (buovjaga)]

Still confirmed with file.

Arch Linux 64-bit, KDE Plasma 5
Inkscape 0.92pre1 15054 (GTK3)

[Nathan Lee (nathan.lee)]

Closing because fixed in 1.0alpha appimage Linux Mint 19.1(shows Pango version: 1.42.3), 0.92.4 flatpak Linux Mint 19.1 or 0.92.4 (installer version) Windows 10, 0.92pre5 (zip version)

Ascii brackets, commas and full stops and file looks correct in 0.92.3

Replicated the issue in 0.91.1

Note, I don't have the font installed, but the replacement font does display it correctly

Closed by: https://gitlab.com/nathanal