5 files changed, 16 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/src/corelib/text/qchar.cpp b/src/corelib/text/qchar.cpp
index dcc36d18ce..7aff25fb4a 100644
--- a/src/corelib/text/qchar.cpp
+++ b/src/corelib/text/qchar.cpp
@@ -595,6 +595,7 @@ QT_BEGIN_NAMESPACE
     \value ByteOrderSwapped
     \value ParagraphSeparator
     \value LineSeparator
+    \value VisualTabCharacter Used to represent a tabulation as a horizontal arrow. Since 6.2.
     \value LastValidCodePoint
 */
 
diff --git a/src/corelib/text/qchar.h b/src/corelib/text/qchar.h
index 78d95e39fa..2a899abf6b 100644
--- a/src/corelib/text/qchar.h
+++ b/src/corelib/text/qchar.h
@@ -98,6 +98,7 @@ public:
         ByteOrderSwapped = 0xfffe,
         ParagraphSeparator = 0x2029,
         LineSeparator = 0x2028,
+        VisualTabCharacter = 0x2192,
         LastValidCodePoint = 0x10ffff
     };
 
diff --git a/src/gui/text/qtextlayout.cpp b/src/gui/text/qtextlayout.cpp
index b2b87fb92e..381c1d20ce 100644
--- a/src/gui/text/qtextlayout.cpp
+++ b/src/gui/text/qtextlayout.cpp
@@ -2617,7 +2617,7 @@ void QTextLine::draw_internal(QPainter *p, const QPointF &pos,
                     gf.width = iterator.itemWidth;
                     QPainterPrivate::get(p)->drawTextItem(QPointF(iterator.x.toReal(), y.toReal()), gf, eng);
                     if (eng->option.flags() & QTextOption::ShowTabsAndSpaces) {
-                        const QChar visualTab = u'\x2192';
+                        const QChar visualTab = QChar(QChar::VisualTabCharacter);
                         int w = QFontMetrics(f).horizontalAdvance(visualTab);
                         qreal x = iterator.itemWidth.toReal() - w; // Right-aligned
                         if (x < 0)
diff --git a/src/widgets/widgets/qplaintextedit.cpp b/src/widgets/widgets/qplaintextedit.cpp
index 20fdbcd6a8..71aecc4275 100644
--- a/src/widgets/widgets/qplaintextedit.cpp
+++ b/src/widgets/widgets/qplaintextedit.cpp
@@ -2497,7 +2497,13 @@ void QPlainTextEdit::setOverwriteMode(bool overwrite)
     \brief the tab stop distance in pixels
     \since 5.10
 
-    By default, this property contains a value of 80.
+    By default, this property contains a value of 80 pixels.
+
+    Do not set a value less than the \l {QFontMetrics::}{horizontalAdvance()}
+    of the QChar::VisualTabCharacter character, otherwise the tab-character
+    will be drawn incompletely.
+
+    \sa QTextOption::ShowTabsAndSpaces, QTextDocument::defaultTextOption
 */
 
 qreal QPlainTextEdit::tabStopDistance() const
diff --git a/src/widgets/widgets/qtextedit.cpp b/src/widgets/widgets/qtextedit.cpp
index 2d3f98b4b9..55fb8adc5d 100644
--- a/src/widgets/widgets/qtextedit.cpp
+++ b/src/widgets/widgets/qtextedit.cpp
@@ -2066,6 +2066,12 @@ void QTextEdit::setOverwriteMode(bool overwrite)
     \since 5.10
 
     By default, this property contains a value of 80 pixels.
+
+    Do not set a value less than the \l {QFontMetrics::}{horizontalAdvance()}
+    of the QChar::VisualTabCharacter character, otherwise the tab-character
+    will be drawn incompletely.
+
+    \sa QTextOption::ShowTabsAndSpaces, QTextDocument::defaultTextOption
 */
 
 qreal QTextEdit::tabStopDistance() const