--- a/dwt/widgets/ToolTip.d	Wed Mar 19 20:14:48 2008 +0100
+++ b/dwt/widgets/ToolTip.d	Wed Mar 19 21:36:28 2008 +0100
@@ -677,6 +677,9 @@
     layoutMessage = null;
     if (message.length !is 0) {
         layoutMessage = OS.gtk_widget_create_pango_layout (handle, toStringz( message ));
+        if (OS.GTK_VERSION >= OS.buildVERSION (2, 4, 0)) {
+            OS.pango_layout_set_auto_dir (layoutMessage, false);
+        }
         OS.pango_layout_set_wrap (layoutMessage, OS.PANGO_WRAP_WORD_CHAR);
     }
     if (OS.GTK_WIDGET_VISIBLE (handle)) configure ();
@@ -704,6 +707,9 @@
     layoutText = null;
     if (text.length !is 0) {
         layoutText = OS.gtk_widget_create_pango_layout (handle, toStringz(text));
+        if (OS.GTK_VERSION >= OS.buildVERSION (2, 4, 0)) {
+            OS.pango_layout_set_auto_dir (layoutText, false);
+        }
         auto boldAttr = OS.pango_attr_weight_new (OS.PANGO_WEIGHT_BOLD);
         boldAttr.start_index = 0;
         boldAttr.end_index = text.length+1;