class: PangoLanguage

[15:7] extends: object

The PangoLanguage structure is used to represent a language. PangoLanguage pointers can be efficiently copied and compared with each other.

Members

handleObj
lib
retainedCallbacks
signalHandlerNames
signalSetterHandlers

Methods

PangoLanguage (Handle = null)

Creates a new Language by wrapping a native handle or another wrapper.
- @p Handle is the native handle or another wrapper whose handle to adopt.
toNativeHandle (Source)

Normalizes a constructor argument into a raw pointer carrier. Accepts a raw NativeHandle, a raw NativeBuffer returned from fn.call(...), another generated wrapper exposing handle(), or null. Returns null when the argument carries no pointer.
- @p Source is the raw handle, raw buffer, wrapper, or null.
- @r A raw pointer carrier or null when no pointer is present.
getLib ()

Returns the opened native library for this generated wrapper.
- @r The opened native library.
handle ()

Returns the wrapped NativeHandle.
- @r The wrapped NativeHandle.
isNull ()

Returns true when the wrapped handle is null.
- @r A bool.
describe ()

Returns a small string for debugging generated wrappers.
- @r A string.
get_sample_string ()

Get a string that is representative of the characters needed to render a particular language. The sample text may be a pangram, but is not necessarily. It is chosen to be demonstrative of normal text in the language, as well as exposing font feature requirements unique to the language. It is suitable for use as sample text in a font selection dialog. If @language is %NULL, the default language as found by [func@Pango.Language.get_default] is used. If Pango does not have a sample string for @language, the classic "The quick brown fox..." is returned. This can be detected by comparing the returned pointer value to that returned for (non-existent) language code "xx". That is, compare to: pango_language_get_sample_string (pango_language_from_string ("xx"))
- @r the sample string.
get_scripts ()

Determines the scripts used to to write @language. If nothing is known about the language tag @language, or if @language is %NULL, then %NULL is returned. The list of scripts returned starts with the script that the language uses most and continues to the one it uses least. The value
- @num_script points at will be set to the number of scripts in the returned array (or zero if %NULL is returned). Most languages use only one script for writing, but there are some that use two (Latin and Cyrillic for example), and a few use three (Japanese for example). Applications should not make any assumptions on the maximum number of scripts returned though, except that it is positive if the return value is not %NULL, and it is a small number. The [method@Pango.Language.includes_script] function uses this function internally. Note: while the return value is declared as PangoScript, the returned values are from the GUnicodeScript enumeration, which may have more values. Callers need to handle unknown values.
- @p num_scripts is location to return number of scripts.
- @r An array of PangoScript values, with the number of entries in the array stored in @num_scripts, or %NULL if Pango does not have any information about this particular language tag (also the case if
- @language is %NULL)..
includes_script (string script)

Determines if @script is one of the scripts used to write @language. The returned value is conservative; if nothing is known about the language tag @language, %TRUE will be returned, since, as far as Pango knows,
- @script might be used to write @language. This routine is used in Pango's itemization process when determining if a supplied language tag is relevant to a particular section of text. It probably is not useful for applications in most circumstances. This function uses [method@Pango.Language.get_scripts] internally.
- @p script is a PangoScript.
- @r %TRUE if @script is one of the scripts used to write @language or if nothing is known about @language (including the case that @language is %NULL), %FALSE otherwise..
matches (string range_list)

Checks if a language tag matches one of the elements in a list of language ranges. A language tag is considered to match a range in the list if the range is '*', the range is exactly the tag, or the range is a prefix of the tag, and the character after it in the tag is '-'.
- @p range_list is a list of language ranges, separated by ';', ':', ',', or space characters. Each element must either be '*', or a RFC 3066 language range canonicalized as by [func@Pango.Language.from_string].
- @r %TRUE if a match was found.
to_string ()

Gets the RFC-3066 format string representing the given language tag. Returns (transfer none): a string representing the language tag