WordWrap word boundary, non-breaking <nobr>, special character slash "/", wrap/split issue.

billouparis

Hello, I would like to display a text composed of several words with wrapMode set to Text.WordWrap enumeration value.
This text contains what I consider being a word which contains a special character (a slash character) in the middle of the word itself. "90km/h"
Sadly Qt is not considering this as a single word, and is splitting the word before the "h".

Code example:
import QtQuick 2.2
import QtQuick.Window 2.1

Window {
id: idRoot

width: 800
height: 480
visible: true

Rectangle {
    id: pipoRect
    width : childrenRect.width
    height: width
    color:"blue"
    Text {
        wrapMode : Text.WordWrap
        id: pipoText
        width : 530
        height :200
        color: "yellow"

        font.pixelSize: 24
        text: "Défaut suspension: Limitez votre vitesse à 90km/h"

    }
}

}

The "word" 90km/h is split on two lines, first line shows "90km/" and second line shows "h".
What would be the best solution to get "90km/h" not split, and displayed in this case on the second line?

Of course this text is just one example, the text can be random, and I need a generic solution to prevent Qt to consider / as a word boundary.
Thank you for any hint!

billouparis

Well I thought I found a kind of solution by using this line:

text: "Défaut suspension: Limitez votre vitesse à <nobr>90km/h</nobr>"
But this just does not work and still provide the same result, with the "90km/" on the first line and the "h" on the second line.
And I'm expecting "90km/h" on the second line instead :(

billouparis

It seems ok with this!
text: "Défaut suspension: Limitez votre vitesse à 90km\u2060/\u2060h"

This is the unicode character for word joiner!
Good night!
Bill

Andriy

This works for me as well. I have the same issue, but in QTextBlock, when text symbols immediately break after slash('/') symbol. Thanks alot for your research.

Donald Duck

Normal C strings don't support unicode, so doing QString("\u2060") will give a compiler warning saying "C4566: character represented by universal-character-name '\u2060' cannot be represented in the current code page (1252)", and will replace the \u2060 characters with question marks.

Instead, it works to do:

QString("Défaut suspension: Limitez votre vitesse à 90km") + QChar(0x2060) + "/" + QChar(0x2060) + "h"

Or, if that's too difficult to read, this also works:

QString("Défaut suspension: Limitez votre vitesse à 90km\1/\1h").replace('\1', QChar(0x2060))