Pango.find_base_dir
Description: Reference for Pango.find_base_dir

### Function

# Pangofind_base_dir

#### Declaration [src]

    PangoDirection
    pango_find_base_dir (
      const gchar* text,
      gint length
    )

#### Description [src]

Searches a string the first character that has a strong direction, according to the Unicode bidirectional algorithm.

Available since: | 1.4

#### Parameters

`text` | `const gchar*`
| The text to process. Must be valid UTF-8
| The data is owned by the caller of the function.
| The string is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string.
`length` | `gint`
| Length of `text` in bytes (may be -1 if `text` is nul-terminated)

#### Return value

Returns: | `PangoDirection`
| The direction corresponding to the first strong character. If no such character is found, then `PANGO_DIRECTION_NEUTRAL` is returned.