Comment 0 for bug 168817

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)