Regarding the workaround of adding newlines to every character—while I have resorted to this at time, it is not a viable solution most of the time. First, every separate line of text then needs to be created separately. For more than a few lines of text this can quickly get unwieldy. Second, not every character would be displayed in the correct orientation. For example, quotation marks, parenthesis, and especially the sound elongation marker for Katakana. Also, the placement of characters such as the period and comma will be incorrect. These issues will immediately be apparent to native speakers.
