playcanvas / playcanvas/engine
Emoji alignment is off with Canvas Font
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Description
The emoji is lower on the line with canvas font compared to how it should be
Here is the PlayCanvas example: https://playcanvas.com/editor/scene/1030675

And this is how it shows up as a div in HTML

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- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reproducing the PlayCanvas example and compare the canvas-rendered emoji with the HTML div shown in the issue. Trace the canvas font and text-baseline handling used by the engine; done means emoji aligns vertically with the equivalent HTML rendering.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- javascript
- Domain
- frontend
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100