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  1. Qt
  2. QTBUG-129836

QTextEdit HTML parser broken in presence of non-BMP unicode characters

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    • Bug
    • Resolution: Unresolved
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    • 6.7.3
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    • Arch Linux up-to-date and Windows 11 up-todate.
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    Description

      The HTML parser QTextEdit uses is broken in the presence of some non-BMP characters in the HTML even when those characters are encoded using HTML entities. A minimal one-line HTML snippet to reproduce the issue is below alongwith simple wrapper PySide code to reproduce.

      from PySide6.QtWidgets import QTextEdit, QApplicationapp = QApplication([])
      w = QTextEdit()
      w.setHtml('<p id="x">&#x1f41a;&#x1f41a;</p>')
      w.show()
      app.exec() 

      This displays as two question marks followed by the spiral shell character U+1f41a (🐚) instead of two spiral shell characters. Note that id="x" is needed, it doesn't reproduce without that, which tells me its dependent on some parser internal state. I have used Python as a convenient way to reproduce the issue but it exists in C++ as well, since the string being passed to setHTML() is pure ASCII. I have also attatched a screenshot of the buggy rendering on my system.

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            kovidgoyal Kovid Goyal
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