Android Honeycomb - low level drawText

In versions of android prior to 3.0, I had no problems implementing RTL support by drawing out text manually (and reversing it myself). The problem is that on Android 3.0 it appears that the drawText method itself is doing partial RTL support, but it is definitely not to my liking.

My question is, how can I draw text to a canvas on an even lower-end point, so that it bypasses the new honeycomb drawtext methods. Is the开发者_如何学编程re another function that I might be missing?