Is there any way I can work around a Big Sur text rendering bug in Qt 5.9.9?
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In Qt 5.15.2 and earlier, text with periods and commas do not render correctly in macOS Big Sur as reported in this bug report:
https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-88495The bug has been fixed in Qt 5.15.3. However, the app I'm developing is still using Qt 5.9.9 because it needs to support earlier versions of macOS than Qt 5.15 (or 5.12) support.
Is there any way I can work around this bug in Qt 5.9.9? I'm using the open source license so patching and recompiling Qt is unfortunately not an option.
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Hi,
@Guy-Gizmo said in Is there any way I can work around a Big Sur text rendering bug in Qt 5.9.9?:
I'm using the open source license so patching and recompiling Qt is unfortunately not an option.
Why is it not an option ?
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Hi,
@Guy-Gizmo said in Is there any way I can work around a Big Sur text rendering bug in Qt 5.9.9?:
I'm using the open source license so patching and recompiling Qt is unfortunately not an option.
Why is it not an option ?
@SGaist said in Is there any way I can work around a Big Sur text rendering bug in Qt 5.9.9?:
Why is it not an option ?
I was under the impression that bundling a modified version of Qt's libraries requires a commercial license. Do correct me if I'm wrong.
Even so, an ideal workaround for this would be one that does not require me to modify Qt, and instead involves a workaround that's contained entirely within my app. Compiling Qt can be quite the pain!
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@SGaist said in Is there any way I can work around a Big Sur text rendering bug in Qt 5.9.9?:
Why is it not an option ?
I was under the impression that bundling a modified version of Qt's libraries requires a commercial license. Do correct me if I'm wrong.
Even so, an ideal workaround for this would be one that does not require me to modify Qt, and instead involves a workaround that's contained entirely within my app. Compiling Qt can be quite the pain!
@Guy-Gizmo said in Is there any way I can work around a Big Sur text rendering bug in Qt 5.9.9?:
Do correct me if I'm wrong
You are. The only thing which is required if you modify Qt - you have to open source your changes in Qt.
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@Guy-Gizmo said in Is there any way I can work around a Big Sur text rendering bug in Qt 5.9.9?:
Do correct me if I'm wrong
You are. The only thing which is required if you modify Qt - you have to open source your changes in Qt.
@jsulm said in Is there any way I can work around a Big Sur text rendering bug in Qt 5.9.9?:
You are. The only thing which is required if you modify Qt - you have to open source your changes in Qt.
Okay, good to know that I have that option. Even so, is there a way of working around this that doesn't involve patching Qt 5.9.9?
