Text Cluster — Pycairo documentation

# Text Cluster

## class TextCluster(tuple)

class cairo.TextCluster(num_bytes: int, num_glyphs: int)

  New in version 1.15.

  The `TextCluster` structure holds information about a single text cluster. A text cluster is a minimal mapping of some glyphs corresponding to some UTF-8 text.

  For a cluster to be valid, both `num_bytes` and `num_glyphs` should be non-negative, and at least one should be non-zero. Note that clusters with zero glyphs are not as well supported as normal clusters. For example, PDF rendering applications typically ignore those clusters when PDF text is being selected.

  See `Context.show_text_glyphs()` for how clusters are used in advanced text operations.

  __init__(num_bytes: int, num_glyphs: int) → None
    Parameters:

      - num_bytes – the number of bytes of UTF-8 text covered by cluster

      - num_glyphs – the number of glyphs covered by cluster

  num_bytes: int = Ellipsis
  num_glyphs: int = Ellipsis