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Pango::Language

Section: User Contributed Perl Documentation (3pm)
Updated: 2011-11-15
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NAME

Pango::Language - an object that represents a language tag  

HIERARCHY

  Glib::Boxed
  +----Pango::Language

 

METHODS

 

language = Pango::Language->get_default

Since: pango 1.16  

direction = Pango->find_base_dir ($text)

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$text (string)

Since: pango 1.4  

language = Pango::Language->from_string ($language)

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$language (string)
 

boolean = $language->includes_script ($script)

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$script (Pango::Script)

Since: pango 1.4  

boolean = $language->matches ($range_list)

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$range_list (string)
 

string = $language->to_string

 

ENUMS AND FLAGS

 

enum Pango::Direction

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'ltr' / 'PANGO_DIRECTION_LTR'
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'rtl' / 'PANGO_DIRECTION_RTL'
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'ttb-ltr' / 'PANGO_DIRECTION_TTB_LTR'
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'ttb-rtl' / 'PANGO_DIRECTION_TTB_RTL'
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'weak-ltr' / 'PANGO_DIRECTION_WEAK_LTR'
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'weak-rtl' / 'PANGO_DIRECTION_WEAK_RTL'
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'neutral' / 'PANGO_DIRECTION_NEUTRAL'
 

enum Pango::Script

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'invalid-code' / 'PANGO_SCRIPT_INVALID_CODE'
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'common' / 'PANGO_SCRIPT_COMMON'
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'inherited' / 'PANGO_SCRIPT_INHERITED'
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'arabic' / 'PANGO_SCRIPT_ARABIC'
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'armenian' / 'PANGO_SCRIPT_ARMENIAN'
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'bengali' / 'PANGO_SCRIPT_BENGALI'
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'bopomofo' / 'PANGO_SCRIPT_BOPOMOFO'
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'cherokee' / 'PANGO_SCRIPT_CHEROKEE'
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'coptic' / 'PANGO_SCRIPT_COPTIC'
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'cyrillic' / 'PANGO_SCRIPT_CYRILLIC'
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'deseret' / 'PANGO_SCRIPT_DESERET'
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'devanagari' / 'PANGO_SCRIPT_DEVANAGARI'
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'ethiopic' / 'PANGO_SCRIPT_ETHIOPIC'
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'georgian' / 'PANGO_SCRIPT_GEORGIAN'
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'gothic' / 'PANGO_SCRIPT_GOTHIC'
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'greek' / 'PANGO_SCRIPT_GREEK'
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'gujarati' / 'PANGO_SCRIPT_GUJARATI'
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'gurmukhi' / 'PANGO_SCRIPT_GURMUKHI'
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'han' / 'PANGO_SCRIPT_HAN'
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'hangul' / 'PANGO_SCRIPT_HANGUL'
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'hebrew' / 'PANGO_SCRIPT_HEBREW'
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'hiragana' / 'PANGO_SCRIPT_HIRAGANA'
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'kannada' / 'PANGO_SCRIPT_KANNADA'
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'katakana' / 'PANGO_SCRIPT_KATAKANA'
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'khmer' / 'PANGO_SCRIPT_KHMER'
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'lao' / 'PANGO_SCRIPT_LAO'
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'latin' / 'PANGO_SCRIPT_LATIN'
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'malayalam' / 'PANGO_SCRIPT_MALAYALAM'
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'mongolian' / 'PANGO_SCRIPT_MONGOLIAN'
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'myanmar' / 'PANGO_SCRIPT_MYANMAR'
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'ogham' / 'PANGO_SCRIPT_OGHAM'
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'old-italic' / 'PANGO_SCRIPT_OLD_ITALIC'
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'oriya' / 'PANGO_SCRIPT_ORIYA'
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'runic' / 'PANGO_SCRIPT_RUNIC'
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'sinhala' / 'PANGO_SCRIPT_SINHALA'
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'syriac' / 'PANGO_SCRIPT_SYRIAC'
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'tamil' / 'PANGO_SCRIPT_TAMIL'
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'telugu' / 'PANGO_SCRIPT_TELUGU'
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'thaana' / 'PANGO_SCRIPT_THAANA'
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'thai' / 'PANGO_SCRIPT_THAI'
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'tibetan' / 'PANGO_SCRIPT_TIBETAN'
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'canadian-aboriginal' / 'PANGO_SCRIPT_CANADIAN_ABORIGINAL'
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'yi' / 'PANGO_SCRIPT_YI'
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'tagalog' / 'PANGO_SCRIPT_TAGALOG'
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'hanunoo' / 'PANGO_SCRIPT_HANUNOO'
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'buhid' / 'PANGO_SCRIPT_BUHID'
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'tagbanwa' / 'PANGO_SCRIPT_TAGBANWA'
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'braille' / 'PANGO_SCRIPT_BRAILLE'
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'cypriot' / 'PANGO_SCRIPT_CYPRIOT'
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'limbu' / 'PANGO_SCRIPT_LIMBU'
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'osmanya' / 'PANGO_SCRIPT_OSMANYA'
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'shavian' / 'PANGO_SCRIPT_SHAVIAN'
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'linear-b' / 'PANGO_SCRIPT_LINEAR_B'
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'tai-le' / 'PANGO_SCRIPT_TAI_LE'
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'ugaritic' / 'PANGO_SCRIPT_UGARITIC'
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'new-tai-lue' / 'PANGO_SCRIPT_NEW_TAI_LUE'
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'buginese' / 'PANGO_SCRIPT_BUGINESE'
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'glagolitic' / 'PANGO_SCRIPT_GLAGOLITIC'
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'tifinagh' / 'PANGO_SCRIPT_TIFINAGH'
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'syloti-nagri' / 'PANGO_SCRIPT_SYLOTI_NAGRI'
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'old-persian' / 'PANGO_SCRIPT_OLD_PERSIAN'
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'kharoshthi' / 'PANGO_SCRIPT_KHAROSHTHI'
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'unknown' / 'PANGO_SCRIPT_UNKNOWN'
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'balinese' / 'PANGO_SCRIPT_BALINESE'
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'cuneiform' / 'PANGO_SCRIPT_CUNEIFORM'
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'phoenician' / 'PANGO_SCRIPT_PHOENICIAN'
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'phags-pa' / 'PANGO_SCRIPT_PHAGS_PA'
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'nko' / 'PANGO_SCRIPT_NKO'
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'kayah-li' / 'PANGO_SCRIPT_KAYAH_LI'
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'lepcha' / 'PANGO_SCRIPT_LEPCHA'
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'rejang' / 'PANGO_SCRIPT_REJANG'
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'sundanese' / 'PANGO_SCRIPT_SUNDANESE'
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'saurashtra' / 'PANGO_SCRIPT_SAURASHTRA'
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'cham' / 'PANGO_SCRIPT_CHAM'
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'ol-chiki' / 'PANGO_SCRIPT_OL_CHIKI'
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'vai' / 'PANGO_SCRIPT_VAI'
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'carian' / 'PANGO_SCRIPT_CARIAN'
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'lycian' / 'PANGO_SCRIPT_LYCIAN'
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'lydian' / 'PANGO_SCRIPT_LYDIAN'
 

SEE ALSO

Pango, Glib::Boxed  

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2003-2011 by the gtk2-perl team.

This software is licensed under the LGPL. See Pango for a full notice.


 

Index

NAME
HIERARCHY
METHODS
language = Pango::Language->get_default
direction = Pango->find_base_dir ($text)
language = Pango::Language->from_string ($language)
boolean = $language->includes_script ($script)
boolean = $language->matches ($range_list)
string = $language->to_string
ENUMS AND FLAGS
enum Pango::Direction
enum Pango::Script
SEE ALSO
COPYRIGHT


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