Text character size documentation

[Ant]

Hello,

I would like to request for further information on the Text class's character size.  I've read up the documentation from:
http://www.sfml-dev.org/documentation/2.0/classsf_1_1Text.php

Unfortunately, the description of the character size functions did not provide the answer I was searching for.  What is the character size measuring?  Vertical length of a character (if so, what's the difference between font's line spacing and this)?  Horizontal length of a character (if so, how does it handle characters such as "l" and "M")?

Thanks for your consideration.

[eXpl0it3r]

Make sure to look at the latest documentation.

unsigned int sf::Text::getCharacterSize() const
Get the character size.

Returns
Size of the characters, in pixels

The horizontal length obviously depends on the used font.
I'm not really sure what information you're looking for.

[Laurent]

He wants to know this is the size of what. And indeed this is not very clear. Even for me. I'll have to check before answering, but as far as I remember this is the total height of the tallest glyph.

However, I wonder in which case you really need to know exactly what it refers to. When you select a font size in a text editor, you don't know what it is either, you just try and take the size that best fits what you want to do.

[Ant]

Thank you for the heads up, Exploiter.  I'll be sure to update my bookmarks to reference the latest documentation.

The reason why I ask about character size is to ensure that text does not go beyond boundaries for functions that handle horizontal/vertical alignment, text wrapping, and clamping.  I do hope some time in the future, I'll be able to demonstrate how my UI module appears, but I still have much work to do.