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  • P Paul Busovikov

    @jsulm yes, I have style-sheet for those widgets, but I've tried same sheets for the build where I have no problem

    that is the one of them, can it spoil something?

    .QLineEdit
    {
        min-height: 32px;
        qtproperty-hsizetype="Maximum";
        border-radius: 2px;
        border-style: solid;
        border-width: 1px;
        border-color: rgb(0,0,0,25%);
        margin-top: 4px;
        margin-bottom: 4px;
    }
    
    .QLineEdit::focus
    {
        border-color: rgb(0,147,196, 85%);
    }
    
    .QLineEdit:hover
    {
        border-color: rgb(0,0,0,40%);
    }
    
    .QLineEdit:disabled
    {
        border-color: rgb(0,0,0,25%);
        background-color: rgb(255,255,255, 50%);
        color: rgb(0,0,0, 50%);
    }
    
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    jsulm
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    @Paul-Busovikov I would try without this style-sheet to be sure

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      @Paul-Busovikov I would try without this style-sheet to be sure

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      @jsulm I've tried without style-sheets, the problem still here

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      • P Paul Busovikov

        @jsulm I've tried without style-sheets, the problem still here

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        @Paul-Busovikov When you start your app do you see any warnings/errors? You build your app on Debian but execute on Mint: did you deploy it (http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/linux-deployment.html)? Could be that it doesn't find the font and falls back to some other font.

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          @jsulm it does find the font, I saw the differences and features of particular fonts
          I deploy it by coping qt libraries (which were used during the compilation in sandbox) and their dependencies and qtplugins and fonts into a path available for app
          During the work there are no warnings or errors

          Can it be some codec problem? I suppose it is UTF-8 in both cases. How can I check it?
          Just printed 10000 characters to see how it looks like

          QString s;
          for ( int i = 1; i < 10000; ++i )
          {
               s.append( QChar(i) );
          }
          ui->textEdit->setText(s);
          

          There are 2 variants0_1501070905064_55.png

          0_1501070871065_12.png

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          • P Paul Busovikov

            @jsulm it does find the font, I saw the differences and features of particular fonts
            I deploy it by coping qt libraries (which were used during the compilation in sandbox) and their dependencies and qtplugins and fonts into a path available for app
            During the work there are no warnings or errors

            Can it be some codec problem? I suppose it is UTF-8 in both cases. How can I check it?
            Just printed 10000 characters to see how it looks like

            QString s;
            for ( int i = 1; i < 10000; ++i )
            {
                 s.append( QChar(i) );
            }
            ui->textEdit->setText(s);
            

            There are 2 variants0_1501070905064_55.png

            0_1501070871065_12.png

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            jsulm
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            @Paul-Busovikov In the second output you can see that much less characters can be properly shown. To me it really looks like a font issue. Internally QString uses UTF-16.

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            • jsulmJ jsulm

              @Paul-Busovikov In the second output you can see that much less characters can be properly shown. To me it really looks like a font issue. Internally QString uses UTF-16.

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              @jsulm you are right

              QFontDatabase().families().join(" | ")
              

              gave me some clue
              The first app returned whole list of families and the second one returned the only one which I deployed

              QFontDatabase::addApplicationFont( "fontDir/myFont.ttf" );
              

              but I don't understand where both apps are looking for fonts
              how can I force the app to look for in /usr/local/fonts not only in my deployed font directory?

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                And for what reason qt would not use fontconfig ?

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                  Paul Busovikov
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                  I don't figure out why fontconfig don't work
                  But I have solved this particular issue by adding path to free fonts in QT_QPA_FONTDIR

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                  • P Paul Busovikov

                    And for what reason qt would not use fontconfig ?

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                    @Paul-Busovikov said in wrong characters are shown instead of dots in password QLineEdit:

                    And for what reason qt would not use fontconfig ?

                    For example because it was built without fontconfig support. Did you build Qt by yourself?

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                    • jsulmJ jsulm

                      @Paul-Busovikov said in wrong characters are shown instead of dots in password QLineEdit:

                      And for what reason qt would not use fontconfig ?

                      For example because it was built without fontconfig support. Did you build Qt by yourself?

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                      @jsulm Thanks for answer. No, I didn't, but I have a log of building

                      So, as far as I understood it is the reason

                      [18:57:36] :	 [Step 2/2]      [exec] Qt Gui:
                      [18:57:36] :	 [Step 2/2]      [exec]   FreeType ............................... yes
                      [18:57:36] :	 [Step 2/2]      [exec]     Using system FreeType ................ no
                      [18:57:36] :	 [Step 2/2]      [exec]   HarfBuzz ............................... yes
                      [18:57:36] :	 [Step 2/2]      [exec]     Using system HarfBuzz ................ no
                      [18:57:36] :	 [Step 2/2]      [exec]   Fontconfig ............................. no
                      [18:57:36] :	 [Step 2/2]      [exec]   Image formats:
                      [18:57:36] :	 [Step 2/2]      [exec]     GIF .................................. yes
                      [18:57:36] :	 [Step 2/2]      [exec]     ICO .................................. yes
                      [18:57:36] :	 [Step 2/2]      [exec]     JPEG ................................. yes
                      [18:57:36] :	 [Step 2/2]      [exec]       Using system libjpeg ............... no
                      [18:57:36] :	 [Step 2/2]      [exec]     PNG .................................. yes
                      [18:57:36] :	 [Step 2/2]      [exec]       Using system libpng ................ no
                      

                      Also for the people who got similar issue there is the way to change password character by style-sheet

                      lineedit-password-character: 42;
                      
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                      • P Paul Busovikov

                        @jsulm Thanks for answer. No, I didn't, but I have a log of building

                        So, as far as I understood it is the reason

                        [18:57:36] :	 [Step 2/2]      [exec] Qt Gui:
                        [18:57:36] :	 [Step 2/2]      [exec]   FreeType ............................... yes
                        [18:57:36] :	 [Step 2/2]      [exec]     Using system FreeType ................ no
                        [18:57:36] :	 [Step 2/2]      [exec]   HarfBuzz ............................... yes
                        [18:57:36] :	 [Step 2/2]      [exec]     Using system HarfBuzz ................ no
                        [18:57:36] :	 [Step 2/2]      [exec]   Fontconfig ............................. no
                        [18:57:36] :	 [Step 2/2]      [exec]   Image formats:
                        [18:57:36] :	 [Step 2/2]      [exec]     GIF .................................. yes
                        [18:57:36] :	 [Step 2/2]      [exec]     ICO .................................. yes
                        [18:57:36] :	 [Step 2/2]      [exec]     JPEG ................................. yes
                        [18:57:36] :	 [Step 2/2]      [exec]       Using system libjpeg ............... no
                        [18:57:36] :	 [Step 2/2]      [exec]     PNG .................................. yes
                        [18:57:36] :	 [Step 2/2]      [exec]       Using system libpng ................ no
                        

                        Also for the people who got similar issue there is the way to change password character by style-sheet

                        lineedit-password-character: 42;
                        
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                        @Paul-Busovikov If you would like to know why fontconfig was built execute configure again with additional -v parameter and check the output. I guess you're missing fontconfig header files (dev package).

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