'\t' has no effect on ofTrueTypeFont::drawString()

@cuinjune wrote:

Hi, I just found out I can't draw a tab character '\t' using ofTrueTypeFont::drawString().

The new line character '\n' works fine but '\t' doesn't work.

Here's my test code. I tried this with OF v0.9.8 on Mac OS X.

//--------------------------------------------------------------
void ofApp::setup(){

    font.load("font.ttf", 30);

    str = "Hello\tWorld"; //string to draw
    cout << str << endl;
}

//--------------------------------------------------------------
void ofApp::update(){

}

//--------------------------------------------------------------
void ofApp::draw(){

    font.drawString(str, 100, 100);
}

And Here's a screenshot when you run the code.

Screen Shot 2017-09-25 at 9.48.45 PM.png902x640 24.2 KB

As you can see, if you print the string to console, there's a tab space between "Hello" and "World" but you can't see the space in the text drawn on the OF window.

Is this a bug? If so, I would appreciate any suggestion on how to fix this.
Thank you in advance.

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