When I’m displaying `Text` with tall glyphs, like “㎥” it causes it to be taller than regular text, m...

# compose-desktop

[Alexander Maryanovsky]

When I’m displaying Text with tall glyphs, like “㎥” it causes it to be taller than regular text, making it misaligned with other `Text`s. Is there a way to tell Text to ignore such tall glyphs and always use the regular font height?

[mcpiroman]

Prbl just #compose

[Alexander Maryanovsky]

I don’t know if it’s a font issue, or a rendering issue. It’s not a problem in Android, though:

[Alexander Maryanovsky]

and here’s the same on the desktop:

[Alexander Maryanovsky]

This is a Row of two Column with two `Text`s in each.

[Alexander Maryanovsky]

and it’s actually only the ㎥; the ƒ doesn’t stretch it.

[Alexander Maryanovsky]

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[Alexander Maryanovsky]

Replaced it with the two characters m³ and that renders fine.

[orangy]

Just a guess: To me looks like a bug in underlying text measuring engine, in skia. Try to search skiko/skija/skia issues on github for something similar. You can also verify if it's problem there by using native skiko methods on a canvas to measure text, skipping compose entirely.

[Alexander Maryanovsky]

Too deep to dig for me, especially since I have a good workaround.

[orangy]

@Igor Demin FYI

[Zach Klippenstein (he/him) [MOD]]

AFAIK skia doesn't do text measurement. On android we use other libraries that do that, then just use skia for drawing. Idk what desktop does but I don't think skia knows anything about text.