URL hitboxes on centered text are left-aligned

[stevecotton]

Game and System Information

• Version: 1.18.0+dev (f4a1d25), 1.19+dev
• OS: Linux (Debian testing distro, X11 session started 11 days ago)
• libc6 2.38-11
• libcairo2 1.18.0-3+b1
• libfontconfig1 2.15.0-1.1
• libgcc-s1 14-20240330-1
• libglib2.0-0t64 2.80.2-1
• libpango-1.0-0 1.52.2+ds-1
• libpangocairo-1.0-0 1.52.2+ds-1
• libsdl2-2.0-0 2.30.2+dfsg-1
• libsdl2-image-2.0-0 2.8.2+dfsg-1+b1
• libsdl2-mixer-2.0-0 2.8.0+dfsg-1+b2

Description of the bug

The red areas are (approximately) where the cursor changes and clicking opens a confirmation dialog to open the link. The non-red areas are just text, and clicking there does nothing. Screenshot is from a 1.19+dev build with work in progress on PR #8905, but the same issue is reproducible on the current 1.18 branch at commit f4a1d25.

The areas are approximate (drew on top of a screenshot rather than having a way to see the exact area), and on 1.18 the right edges of the hitbox are slightly further left. On 1.18 the left edges seem to be in the same x coordinate for both texts, however on 1.19 the left edge of the area is, as shown in the screenshot, a few pixels further right for the longer piece of text.

Steps to reproduce the behavior

1. From the title screen, open the language selection
2. Hover over the links

Expected behavior

No response

Additional context

The UI that shows this bug is a new feature that's added to 1.18.1 but wasn't in 1.18.0.

[Wedge009]

Something is odd about the way this is implemented - the active link areas seem to match what's reported but if I switch to pixel scaling of 2, the active link areas expand considerably. Presumably it would expand again at scaling of 3 and higher.