[jira] [Resolved] (PDFBOX-4944) Built-in fonts are reporting nbsp char as having zero width.

["Tilman Hausherr (Jira)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-4944?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Tilman Hausherr resolved PDFBOX-4944.
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      Assignee: Tilman Hausherr
    Resolution: Fixed

Thanks for reporting; snapshot here

https://repository.apache.org/content/groups/snapshots/org/apache/pdfbox/pdfbox-app/2.0.22-SNAPSHOT/

> Built-in fonts are reporting nbsp char as having zero width.
> ------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: PDFBOX-4944
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-4944
>             Project: PDFBox
>          Issue Type: Bug
>    Affects Versions: 2.0.21
>            Reporter: Dan Fickling
>            Assignee: Tilman Hausherr
>            Priority: Major
>              Labels: regression
>             Fix For: 3.0.0 PDFBox, 2.0.22
>
>
> {{        PDFont font = PDType1Font.HELVETICA; // Also tested with Times.}}
> {{        System.out.println("width = " + font.getStringWidth("\u00a0"));}}
>  
> {{Non-breaking space is reporting as zero width (standard 14 fonts) in 2.0.21 while being encoded as a (width taking) character. As you can imagine this causes serious errors in line and justification layout.}}
>  
> Related:
> Prior to PDFBOX-4891 non-breaking space threw an IllegalArgumentException.
>  
> {{Originally reported at Github:}}
> [https://github.com/danfickle/openhtmltopdf/issues/543]
>  
> Discovered by Github user lagar84.



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