I'd like to have a Vertical TextBlock to render East Asian Text

[darthwing-duck]

I'm submitting a...

Feature request (UserVoice request: )

Current behavior

XAML doesn't provide a way to render text vertically like so.

Expected behavior

It would be nice to have that behavior. There's already some discussion on the social sites:

https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/ja-JP/edd1f33c-e4a0-4717-ae88-99c7d787e711/content-12420-text

but no solution which is widespread.

[michael-hawker]

Thanks for submitting an issue @juma-msft. Can you file a UserVoice issue for this request as well? Thanks.

[skendrot]

I think that would be the default behavior for the standard TextBlock when the culture is set...

[azchohfi]

The platform control doesn't currently support this, so we could only achieve this with a custom control.
(Edit: PS: Note: ... with performance.)

[skendrot]

I understand, I'm saying it should be the default. This is something that should go directly into the platform

[mdtauk]

Windows Phone 7/8 supported this with the in-built apps. Perhaps you could talk to team members who built the Windows Phone UI to see if they can offer any sample code that could be adapted.

Of course, it would be better for this to be built into the platform controls...

[nmetulev]

Agree that this should be part of the platform, but, AFAIK, there are currently no plans. I've discussed offline with @juma-msft and this makes sense to add to the toolkit as a step to the platform and I'm all for it. But of course this is open to a discussion.

Another thing that's not mentioned here is that this is a C++ control. It would be a whole new binary and it could be a open the door for other native controls that provide the performance needed by some commercial scenarios.

[JustinXinLiu]

Keep in mind that some Asian languages make sense for vertical alignment but this shouldn't be the default behavior.

My vote goes to support this in the toolkit.

[mdtauk]

If this makes it down to the platform/Win UI level - it should be a property of something like TextOrientation Horizontal; Vertical; - which works alongside Left, Right, Centred, Justify - and possibly include Top, Middle, Bottom options as well. If the underlying Direct Write API supports something, surely the native/xaml controls should expose them.

[windowstoolkitbot]

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[mdtauk]

There is a control in development to address this issue Mr Bot.

[Kyaa-dost]

Moving this to the discussion since it still requires more clarity.

[michael-hawker]

FYI @ryandemopoulos, this was a control that we had a PR for here in C++, but had some unresolved issues with. Now that WinUI is open source, and WinUI 3 will be in the future. This issue may be more relevant for the platform itself? Not sure how adaptable the code from the PR is, but it could be a starting point for a new prototype? Let me know if we should open an issue in the WinUI repo or not. Thanks!