Re: [gtk-list] Font ascents bug

[Steve Hosgood <iisteve iiweeble swan ac uk>]

Mattias "Grönlund" <Mattias.Gronlund@sdf.se> wrote:
> I'm afraid that I have found a bug in the usage of GtkFont->ascent. The
> problem is that the height of a font is ascent + descent + 1 [....]
> 
> You can see the bug in action by typing an 'Å' (uppercase aring) and a
> 'g' in testgtk:s entry-box. You will see that the g is displayed as it
> should, but the 'Å' has lost one pixel at the top.
> 

Amusingly, this same fault showed up on the my mail reader! Mattias's
example using 'aring' looked just like he described it!

I use "TkMail 4.0beta8" running on top of "wish" 4.2. Evidently, this mistake
is quite well established!

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