[Qt-interest] How can I use QFontMetrics to measure strings which contains non-ASCII characters?

[Thiago Macieira]

On Wednesday, 19 de January de 2011 10:58:39 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> On 01/19/2011 10:40 AM, Kermit Mei wrote:
> > 2011/1/19 Willem Liu <wliu at infologic.nl <mailto:wliu at infologic.nl>>
> > 
> >     Hi Kermit,
> >     
> >     In what way did you find it inaccurate?
> > 
> > Use the same length of string with Chinese characters. But the result is
> > different.
> 
> Well, every character has a different size.  For example the width of
> "AB" is different than the width of "BC".  Only fixed-width fonts (like
> Courier and such) have the same width for every character.

And even then there is such thing as full-width, half-width and zero-width 
characters. CJK is full-width, Latin script is half-width.

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