[irlennard]

I have a dictionary application for languages such as German and French, and I'm using a ListField to display their contents.

The problem comes when I display some special characters such as Ä (A with umlaut - German) and É (E with acute - French): They are too high, and the top part gets clipped.

It seems in the font class, the font height is always for the "base" Latin characters, ignoring umlaut or acute for example. Anyone know how (if possible) I can get the correct height?

Cheers,
IRL

[simon.hain]

if font,getheight does not return the correct value you should work around it and just add a fixed percentage to the value to cover it.

[irlennard]

Thanks, I tried that already. Multiplying the height by 1.5 seems to do the trick. I was just wondering if there was a better way.

A TextField for example somehow knows when I enter Ä on a line. The line height suddenly increases to accommodate the extra height of this character.

Cheers,
IRL