RFR: 8270265: LineBreakMeasurer calculates incorrect line breaks with zero-width characters [v3]

[Daniel Gredler]

On Fri, 21 Feb 2025 21:13:16 GMT, Daniel Gredler <dgredler at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> When a string contains zero-width characters, `LineBreakMeasurer` calculates line breaks incorrectly.
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>> The root cause appears to be that `LineBreakMeasurer` eventually calls into `StandardGlyphVector.getGlyphInfo()`, which derives the glyph advances from the glyph IDs. However, HarfBuzz's default treatment of zero-width characters is to provide the glyph ID of the space character (`U+0020`) combined with an artificial zero advance (not the font's space glyph advance). Unaware of HarfBuzz's sleight of hand, `StandardGlyphVector.getGlyphInfo()` retrieves the actual advances of the space glyph (since that was the glyph ID returned) and provides these back up the call chain to `LineBreakMeasurer` et al.
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>> I think the correct fix is to use `hb_buffer_set_invisible_glyph` to register `0xFFFF` as the invisible glyph ID with HarfBuzz (matching `CharToGlyphMapper.INVISIBLE_GLYPH_ID`).
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>> I haven't seen any unwanted side effects, but there is a risk, since this is changing the global HarfBuzz configuration.
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>> For more information on HarfBuzz's behavior in this area, see: https://harfbuzz.github.io/setting-buffer-properties.html
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> Daniel Gredler has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
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>   Update copyright year

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/23603#issuecomment-2721013612