<text> does not respect x,y offset lists http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG/text.html#TextElement The current <text> implementation only repects the first offset, not the entire array. RenderText might need to be made smarter in order to implement this.
This is a rather obscure feature. One which will be easy to implement once we have the infrastructure in place for things like <textPath>
This is in oliver territory.
We'd have to talk to oliver, but I think this is nearly working these days. Just needs a little wiring. This will be required before implementing textPath bug 6425.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 12698 ***