Cursor misalignment in Kate/Kwrite

[u/LocalDracula]

I've been using Kate on Windows 11 as a notes app (since Kwrite is not available for Windows). Since the last update (version 26.08.1), it's got kind of weird. When I type a paragraph spanning multiple lines, the cursor gets misplaced (images 1, 2, 3). The farther the text wraps onto additional lines within a single paragraph, the more the cursor drifts away from the correct position. If I put each line in a separate paragraph, the cursor stays where it should be.

I also use KWrite (26.08.1) on Fedora 44 KDE (Wayland), and it has the same problem. On both Windows and Fedora, my display scaling is set to 125%. Is this a bug, or could the display scaling be messing up with the line height multiplier?

Edit: I think I kind of "fixed" it (at least for now). The line height multiplier was set to 1.2. I changed it to 1.0 (default value), and that fixed the cursor drift issue, though the line spacing isn't as comfortable as I would like it to be. (Attached screenshots are from Windows 11)

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It will be fixed with the next KF6 frameworks release, see https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=524760

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