Bug 82103

Summary:

[Qt] Problems with soft hyphens

Product:

WebKit

Reporter:

Igor Kogan <info>

Component:

WebKit Qt

Assignee:

Nobody <webkit-unassigned>

Status:

RESOLVED INVALID

Severity:

Major

CC:

andersca, kovid

Priority:

Version:

528+ (Nightly build)

Hardware:

OS:

Windows XP

Attachments:

Description	Flags
Calibre screenshot	none

Igor Kogan

Reported 2012-03-23 16:22:08 PDT

Created attachment 133583 [details] Calibre screenshot We experience severe problems with soft hyphens when viewing our books in Calibre (ebook viewer), which uses Qt, which uses WebKit. See the screenshot attached. - Many soft-hyphens appear visibly as vertical lines. - The text should be justified, but it is not. It is spaced strangely, as if it would be justified. However, the right edge is jagged. - We use JavaScript to display the translation when you click on a sentence. From time to time, the viewer just crashes after the click. The Calibre developer says: [What] is likely to be causing this is the update to Qt version 4.8 which includes an updated WebKit build. I see the artifacts you report in XP, but not in linux or Win7 (on win7 the soft hyphens are invisible, but that is a long standing bug in Qt WebKit). Only Windows XP is affected. I have verified OS X is fine. The bugs were probably introduced recently, earlier Calibre/Qt versions were not affected.

Attachments
Calibre screenshot (172.79 KB, image/jpeg) 2012-03-23 16:22 PDT, Igor Kogan	no flags	Details
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Igor Kogan

Comment 1 2012-03-23 16:28:31 PDT

If I remove the soft hyphens, all bugs (including crahes) go away.

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