Text rendering fixes - #341
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None of these are referenced by the files that include them: text_renderer.cpp <private/qharfbuzz_p.h> no hb_ or HB_ symbols text_block.cpp <private/qfontengine_p.h> no QFontEngine, no QGlyphLayout text_block.h <private/qfixed_p.h> no QFixed text_block_parser.cpp <private/qfixed_p.h> no QFixed Private headers carry no binary compatibility guarantee, so every one of them is a rebuild risk for distribution packagers on a Qt point release. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The line came from QTextEngine::itemize(), where Qt guards it:
if (!qt_useHarfbuzzNG())
analysis[i].script = hbscript_to_script(script_to_hbscript(...));
and qt_useHarfbuzzNG() is `qgetenv("QT_HARFBUZZ") != "old"`, so Qt 5.15 only
runs it for the legacy shaper nobody asks for. Our copy dropped the guard and
ran it always. Qt itself introduced the mapping in 2012 when it moved to
QChar::Script, to keep the behaviour of the old harfbuzz, which knew 29 scripts
and treated the rest - latin, Han, hiragana, katakana and everything Unicode
gained since - as Common; Qt 6 lost it in f0813484 ("Remove old harfbuzz
dependency from QTextEngine"), which deleted that shaper wholesale.
Collapsing scripts to Common made itemization group into one item what it
otherwise splits, so dropping it does not change what the text looks like: it
adopts what Qt 5 does by default and what Qt 6 does always.
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…dle. A middle elision fills each half of the line from its outer edge inwards, so it has to keep the end of an item that faces the middle - and which end that is depends on the item's direction, since glyphs are stored in logical order and the visually left part of a right-to-left item is its last glyphs. Walking from the first glyph regardless kept the wrong end as soon as a half spanned more than one item: instead of the beginning and the end of the text, a right-to-left line showed two stretches out of its middle, out of order. An item covers at most kMaxItemLength characters, so this takes a longer text than that - a Premium message of up to 8192, or an Instant View paragraph. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
A cluster can map to several glyphs, and the walks that turn an x into a character and a character range into a highlight took only the first one's advance. Their running x then fell behind the text as it is drawn - by 117 pixels on a devanagari item here - so a drag resolved to a character left of the pointer, and the highlight started left of the characters it covered. The gap left at the end of a line by a selection that spans lines came from the same place, at seven pixels of it. Sum the advances of the cluster's glyphs instead, which makes the walks add up to the item width they are laid out with. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
When a selection runs past the end of a line, the rest of the line is filled separately, and that fill started where the line width minus what was left over said the text ended. The items add up to a slightly different place - the leftover counts the last word's right bearing, the items do not - so on a script whose last glyph overhangs, the two rounded to different pixels and left a gap. The devanagari sample showed it at one pixel; before the cluster width fix it was seven. Fill it after the items instead, where the end of the text is known exactly. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
A point outside a line is checked against the line's width, which counts the last word's right bearing, while the items that take a point inside the line do not count it - so up to a pixel between the last glyph and the line's width belongs to neither check. A click there fell through to whatever the walk over lines had left behind: the end of the line above, or the very start of the text when there is no line above. Resolve it like a point past the line, at the end of the line it is on, and let the three places that resolve to an edge of a line share one helper. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
A visible letter can take several characters - a consonant with its matra, a conjunct, a base with combining marks - and the only places a caret can be at are its boundaries, so that is where a click belongs and where a cut may fall. Taking a glyph at a time put a caret inside a letter and left an orphan matra behind an ellipsis. Letters can also share a glyph, and then they have no width of their own: they take an equal share of the one they are drawn as, the same way the engine maps a point back to a position. A cut falls where a letter boundary is also a glyph boundary, since half a glyph cannot be drawn, and a half of a middle elision that fits no whole letter now draws none instead of one that hangs past the width it was given. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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