Position of "tip" in an Arrow-Unicode character

Question

Is there a way one can find the position of the "tip" of an arrow character in unicode?

For example I have ↱ and wanna find the position of the ">", so that I can draw the character at the appropriate y-position in my widget.

Answer 1

It depends on the font.

You could try blitting the glyph using a library like FreeType (not sure if Qt has glyph blitters) to an image buffer and then find the right-most pixel which should be the tip.