Text in QML rendered different accross platforms

Question

I am seeing inconsistencies in the rendering of text between different platforms:

The image on the top left is produced in android, and as the red guide lin

Answer 1

It turns out that it is a bug. So it will likely be fixed sometime in the years to come...

Until then, the following workaround should do the trick at least when it comes to the vertical position:

  property real offset: {
    switch (Qt.platform.os) {
    case "android": return androidValue
    case "windows": return windowsValue
    // and so on...
    }
  }

I will investigate if there are discrepancies between different version of the same platforms and update the answer if necessary.

UPDATE: It may turn out that the exception here is windows, as the output from android and ubuntu is practically identical (and yes, both are essentially linux anyway). I don't have a mac so I cannot give any input on that.