Cropped characters in text_edit sample

[dirkarnez]

The letter 'g' is cropped.

[djowel]

Nice catch! Will look ASAP.

[djowel]

Odd. Again I can't repro in MacOS. Might be Windows thing again. I'll check later.

[djowel]

Odd. Again I can't repro in MacOS. Might be Windows thing again. I'll check later.

Ah zooming and looking closely at my screenshot, its seems the "g" is also mildly cropped at the bottom.

[djowel]

OK, I'm not 100% sure, but it's looking like a cairo text-layout bug with the chinese font. Try changing the font to an english font like Roboto and notice that it's not cropped. Can you verify? Change this line:

char const* font_family = "文泉驿微米黑, \"WenQuanYi Micro Hei\"";

To this:

char const* font_family = "Roboto";

(Of course you have to remove the chinese text if you change the font.)

[dirkarnez]

It really is the font issue

[djowel]

I'll close this for now, but I'll add an item in the TODO list: we need to create an MVCE and report to the cairo developers. I doubt there will be some action, but we'll see:

#216

[dirkarnez]

I'll close this for now, but I'll add an item in the TODO list: we need to create an MVCE and report to the cairo developers. I doubt there will be some action, but we'll see:

#216

Sounds like a cairo issue?

[faywong]

It's related to the different font & font metrics. I do a simple experiment:

1st: Roboto font + english char:

2nd: WenQuanYi font + english char:

3rd: WenQuanYi + Chinese char: same to 2nd case

Per this case, the conclusion is the english font is higher than chinese font. So when explicit chinese is specified(which decides the layout) & fallback english font is used, the english char is rended with crop.