ActiveReports 6 provides the support of vertical writing that is widely used in East Asian languages. By setting the VerticalText property of the Textbox or Label control to True, the text you supply for the controls will be rendered vertically.

Vertical Text Rendering: General Limitations

Some dividing punctuation marks, middle dots, full stops and commas may render incorrectly, depending on the input mode.

Show The vertical rendering of the following characters may depend on the input mode

Character	UCS	Name
‼	203C	DOUBLE EXCLAMATION MARK
ㇰ	2047	DOUBLE QUESTION MARK
ㇰ	2048	QUESTION EXCLAMATION MARK
ㇰ	2049	EXCLAMATION QUESTION MARK
?	003F	QUESTION MARK
!	0021	EXCLAMATION MARK
;	003B	SEMICOLON Remark: used horizontal composition
.	002E	FULL STOP Remark: used horizontal composition
,	002C	COMMA Remark: used horizontal composition

The Unicode ideographic characters 3013 ("geta mark") and 261E ("white right pointing index") are rendered incorrectly in vertical mode if the Font property is set to Meiryo.
The following Hiragana and Katakana character combinations are rendered as separate characters in vertical mode (the VerticalText property is set to True), instead of being rendered as one character:

Show Hiragana and Katakana combinations that have rendering limitations in vertical mode

Character	UCS	Name
か゚	<304B, 309A>	<HIRAGANA LETTER KA, COMBINING KATAKANA-HIRAGANA SEMI-VOICED SOUND MARK>
き゚	<304D, 309A>	<HIRAGANA LETTER KI, COMBINING KATAKANA-HIRAGANA SEMI-VOICED SOUND MARK>
く゚	<304F, 309A>	<HIRAGANA LETTER KU, COMBINING KATAKANA-HIRAGANA SEMI-VOICED SOUND MARK>
け゚	<3051, 309A>	<HIRAGANA LETTER KE, COMBINING KATAKANA-HIRAGANA SEMI-VOICED SOUND MARK>
こ゚	<3053, 309A>	<HIRAGANA LETTER KO, COMBINING KATAKANA-HIRAGANA SEMI-VOICED SOUND MARK>
カ゚	<30AB, 309A>	<KATAKANA LETTER KA, COMBINING KATAKANA-HIRAGANA SEMI-VOICED SOUND MARK>
キ゚	<30AD, 309A>	<KATAKANA LETTER KI, COMBINING KATAKANA-HIRAGANA SEMI-VOICED SOUND MARK>
ク゚	<30AF, 309A>	<KATAKANA LETTER KU, COMBINING KATAKANA-HIRAGANA SEMI-VOICED SOUND MARK>
ケ゚	<30B1, 309A>	<KATAKANA LETTER KE, COMBINING KATAKANA-HIRAGANA SEMI-VOICED SOUND MARK>
コ゚	<30B3, 309A>	<KATAKANA LETTER KO, COMBINING KATAKANA-HIRAGANA SEMI-VOICED SOUND MARK>
セ゚	<30BB, 309A>	<KATAKANA LETTER SE, COMBINING KATAKANA-HIRAGANA SEMI-VOICED SOUND MARK>
ツ゚	<30C4, 309A>	<KATAKANA LETTER TU, COMBINING KATAKANA-HIRAGANA SEMI-VOICED SOUND MARK>
ト゚	<30C8, 309A>	<KATAKANA LETTER TO, COMBINING KATAKANA-HIRAGANA SEMI-VOICED SOUND MARK>

Vertical Text Rendering: Viewer Limitations

Small kanas are rendered incorrectly if the Angle property of the Textbox or Label control is set to 90 degrees

Show Small kanas that are rendered incorrectly in the Viewer control if rotated 90 degrees

Character	UCS	Name
ㇰ	31F0	KATAKANA LETTER SMALL KU
ㇰ	31F1	KATAKANA LETTER SMALL SI
ㇰ	31F2	KATAKANA LETTER SMALL SU
ㇰ	31F3	KATAKANA LETTER SMALL TO
ㇰ	31F4	KATAKANA LETTER SMALL NU
ㇰ	31F5	KATAKANA LETTER SMALL HA
ㇰ	31F6	KATAKANA LETTER SMALL HI
ㇰ	31F7	KATAKANA LETTER SMALL HU
ㇰ	31F8	KATAKANA LETTER SMALL HE
ㇰ	31F9	KATAKANA LETTER SMALL HO
ㇰ	31FA	KATAKANA LETTER SMALL MU
ㇰ	31FB	KATAKANA LETTER SMALL RA
ㇰ	31FC	KATAKANA LETTER SMALL RI
ㇰ	31FD	KATAKANA LETTER SMALL RU
ㇰ	31FE	KATAKANA LETTER SMALL RE
ㇰ	31FF	KATAKANA LETTER SMALL RO
ㇰ	<31F7, 309A>	<KATAKANA LETTER SMALL HU, COMBINING KATAKANA-HIRAGANA SEMI-VOICED SOUND MARK>

Vertical Text Rendering: FlashViewer Limitations

The Unicode ideographic character 00A7 ("section sign") is cut off when rendered in vertical mode.
The open square bracket symbol is cutoff when rendered in vertical mode if the Font property is set to MS P Gothic, MS UI Gothic or MS P Mincho.
Any character is rendered incorrectly in vertical mode if the Italic property is set to True for the Meiryo font.
The Unicode ideographic characters 2985 ("left white parenthesis") and 2986 ("right white parenthesis") are rendered incorrectly in vertical mode if the Font property is set to Meiryo.
FlashViewer renders vertical text in the Textbox or Lable control of any width as one line.
FlashViewer does not render correctly some ideographic characters (cl-19).

Show Ideographic characters (cl-19) that are rendered incorrectly in FlashViewer

Character	UCS	Name
♂	2642	MALE SIGN
♀	2640	FEMALE SIGN
☆	2606	WHITE STAR
★	2605	BLACK STAR
△	25B3	WHITE UP-POINTING TRIANGLE
▲	25B2	BLACK UP-POINTING TRIANGLE
▽	25BD	WHITE DOWN-POINTING TRIANGLE
▼	25BC	BLACK DOWN-POINTING TRIANGLE
▷	25B7	WHITE RIGHT-POINTING TRIANGLE
▶	28B6	BLACK RIGHT-POINTING TRIANGLE
◁	25C1	WHITE LEFT-POINTING TRIANGLE
◀	25C0	BLACK LEFT-POINTING TRIANGLE
♯	266F	MUSIC SHARP SIGN
♭	266D	MUSIC FLAT SIGN
♪	266A	EIGHTH NOTE
♮	266E	MUSIC NATURAL SIGN
♫	266B	BEAMED EIGHTH NOTES
♬	266C	BEAMED SIXTEENTH NOTES
♩	2669	QUARTER NOTE
✓	2713	CHECK MARK
◐	25D0	CIRCLE WITH LEFT HALF BLACK
◑	25D1	CIRCLE WITH RIGHT HALF BLACK
◒	25D2	CIRCLE WITH LOWER HALF BLACK
◓	25D3	CIRCLE WITH UPPER HALF BLACK
❶	2776	DINGBAT NEGATIVE CIRCLED DIGIT ONE
❷	2777	DINGBAT NEGATIVE CIRCLED DIGIT TWO
❸	2778	DINGBAT NEGATIVE CIRCLED DIGIT THREE
❹	2779	DINGBAT NEGATIVE CIRCLED DIGIT FOUR
❺	277A	DINGBAT NEGATIVE CIRCLED DIGIT FIVE
❻	277B	DINGBAT NEGATIVE CIRCLED DIGIT SIX
❼	277C	DINGBAT NEGATIVE CIRCLED DIGIT SEVEN
❽	277D	DINGBAT NEGATIVE CIRCLED DIGIT EIGHT
❾	277E	DINGBAT NEGATIVE CIRCLED DIGIT NINE
❿	277F	DINGBAT NEGATIVE CIRCLED NUMBER TEN
ㇰ	24EB	NEGATIVE CIRCLED NUMBER ELEVEN
ㇰ	24EC	NEGATIVE CIRCLED NUMBER TWELVE
ㇰ	24ED	NEGATIVE CIRCLED NUMBER THIRTEEN
ㇰ	24EE	NEGATIVE CIRCLED NUMBER FOURTEEN
ㇰ	24EF	NEGATIVE CIRCLED NUMBER FIFTEEN
ㇰ	24F0	NEGATIVE CIRCLED NUMBER SIXTEEN
ㇰ	24F1	NEGATIVE CIRCLED NUMBER SEVENTEEN
ㇰ	24F2	NEGATIVE CIRCLED NUMBER EIGHTEEN
ㇰ	24F3	NEGATIVE CIRCLED NUMBER NINETEEN
ㇰ	24F4	NEGATIVE CIRCLED NUMBER TWENTY
ⓐ	24D0	CIRCLED LATIN SMALL LETTER A
ⓑ	24D1	CIRCLED LATIN SMALL LETTER B
ⓒ	24D2	CIRCLED LATIN SMALL LETTER C
ⓓ	24D3	CIRCLED LATIN SMALL LETTER D
ⓔ	24D4	CIRCLED LATIN SMALL LETTER E
ⓕ	24D5	CIRCLED LATIN SMALL LETTER F
ⓖ	24D6	CIRCLED LATIN SMALL LETTER G
ⓗ	24D7	CIRCLED LATIN SMALL LETTER H
ⓘ	24D8	CIRCLED LATIN SMALL LETTER I
ⓙ	24D9	CIRCLED LATIN SMALL LETTER J
ⓚ	24DA	CIRCLED LATIN SMALL LETTER K
ⓛ	24DB	CIRCLED LATIN SMALL LETTER L
ⓜ	24DC	CIRCLED LATIN SMALL LETTER M
ⓝ	24DD	CIRCLED LATIN SMALL LETTER N
ⓞ	24DE	CIRCLED LATIN SMALL LETTER O
ⓟ	24DF	CIRCLED LATIN SMALL LETTER P
ⓠ	24E0	CIRCLED LATIN SMALL LETTER Q
ⓡ	24E1	CIRCLED LATIN SMALL LETTER R
ⓢ	24E2	CIRCLED LATIN SMALL LETTER S
ⓣ	24E3	CIRCLED LATIN SMALL LETTER T
ⓤ	24E4	CIRCLED LATIN SMALL LETTER U
ⓥ	24E5	CIRCLED LATIN SMALL LETTER V
ⓦ	24E6	CIRCLED LATIN SMALL LETTER W
ⓧ	24E7	CIRCLED LATIN SMALL LETTER X
ⓨ	24E8	CIRCLED LATIN SMALL LETTER Y
ⓩ	24E9	CIRCLED LATIN SMALL LETTER Z
①	2460	CIRCLED DIGIT ONE
②	2461	CIRCLED DIGIT TWO
③	2462	CIRCLED DIGIT THREE
④	2463	CIRCLED DIGIT FOUR
⑤	2464	CIRCLED DIGIT FIVE
⑥	2465	CIRCLED DIGIT SIX
⑦	2466	CIRCLED DIGIT SEVEN
⑧	2467	CIRCLED DIGIT EIGHT
⑨	2468	CIRCLED DIGIT NINE
⑩	2469	CIRCLED NUMBER TEN
⑪	246A	CIRCLED NUMBER ELEVEN
⑫	246B	CIRCLED NUMBER TWELVE
⑬	246C	CIRCLED NUMBER THIRTEEN
⑭	246D	CIRCLED NUMBER FOURTEEN
⑮	246E	CIRCLED NUMBER FIFTEEN
⑯	246F	CIRCLED NUMBER SIXTEEN
⑰	2470	CIRCLED NUMBER SEVENTEEN
⑱	2471	CIRCLED NUMBER EIGHTEEN
⑲	2472	CIRCLED NUMBER NINETEEN
⑳	2473	CIRCLED NUMBER TWENTY
♤	2664	WHITE SPADE SUIT
♠	2660	BLACK SPADE SUIT
♢	2662	WHITE DIAMOND SUIT
♦	2666	BLACK DIAMOND SUIT
♡	2661	WHITE HEART SUIT
♥	2665	BLACK HEART SUIT
♧	2667	WHITE CLUB SUIT
♣	2663	BLACK CLUB SUIT
ㇰ	2616	WHITE SHOGI PIECE
ㇰ	2617	BLACK SHOGI PIECE
〠	3020	POSTAL MARK FACE
☎	260E	BLACK TELEPHONE
☀	2600	BLACK SUN WITH RAYS
☁	2601	CLOUD
☂	2602	UMBRELLA
☃	2603	SNOWMAN
♨	2668	HOT SPRINGS
▱	25B1	WHITE PARALLELOGRAM

Vertical Text Export Options

Vertical writing is supported for the following export filters:

Limitations:

If the width of the TextBox or Label control, containing vertical text, is larger than a single character, the text in the exported PDF file will overlap.
Vertical text in the Label control with the Angle property set to a value other than 0 will not display correctly in the resulting PDF file.
Open, curly and square brackets with the Italic property set to True are rendered incorrectly in the resulting PDF file.
Some Japanese Kanji characters with the Italic property set to True are rendered incorrectly in vertical mode in the resulting PDF file.

Limitations:

In case of the HTML export filter, the vertical text is supported just for the DynamicHtml output type and works with Microsoft Internet Explorer only.

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