kvadrant-core/io.github.youndie.kvadrant.components/KVADRANT_PASSWORD_MASK

KVADRANT_PASSWORD_MASK

const val KVADRANT_PASSWORD_MASK: Char = '\u2022'

What a masked character is drawn as, and it is not Silverlight's.

PasswordChar defaults to U+25CF BLACK CIRCLE, and Selawik's cmap does not carry it — read out of the font, not assumed. A text field draws through BasicTextField, which does no script splitting, so the circle fell through to whatever the operating system had: the dots were a different glyph on every platform, and the way it surfaced was a screenshot that would not match between two of them.

U+2022 BULLET is in Selawik. It is smaller than the circle and it is this project's choice rather than Microsoft's, which is why it is a parameter of KvadrantPasswordBox — a caller with a font that has the circle can ask for it back.