Details
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Bug
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Resolution: Done
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P3: Somewhat important
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5.11.1
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None
Description
When a text that contains Unicode character controls (ZWJ, ZWNJ, possible RLM LRM RLE LRE etc.), the width returned by QFontMetrics::tightBoundingRect is larger than what it’s actually is, even if the script doesn’t support such scripts at all.
Example code (this is PyQt5, but I am pretty sure that the binding have nothing to do with the width):
from PyQt5.QtGui import QGuiApplication, QFont, QFontMetricsF app = QGuiApplication(["myApp"]) notoFont = QFont("Noto Sans", 62) notoMetrics = QFontMetricsF(notoFont) print(notoMetrics.tightBoundingRect("ab")) print(notoMetrics.tightBoundingRect("a\u200Cb"))
Returns:
PyQt5.QtCore.QRectF(3.0, -64.0, 91.0, 65.0)
PyQt5.QtCore.QRectF(3.0, -64.0, 113.0, 65.0)
I’ve tested this with several fonts and the width was different in all of them (for the two cases).
This was originally about Arabic script, trying to prepend/append ZNJ character to an Arabic letter. The same issue happens with that as well, although it’s a bit more complicated.
Attachments
Issue Links
- is duplicated by
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QTBUG-15974 QFontMetrics::boundingRect() returns too-small result
- Closed
- relates to
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QTBUG-85936 TextMetrics.width does not always give a correct width for the given text and is sometimes too short depending on the font used
- Closed