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-rw-r--r--libs/canvas/flag.cc6
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/libs/canvas/flag.cc b/libs/canvas/flag.cc
index 2d0bdb2830..d0ce5af2b1 100644
--- a/libs/canvas/flag.cc
+++ b/libs/canvas/flag.cc
@@ -72,7 +72,11 @@ Flag::set_font_description (Pango::FontDescription font_description)
void
Flag::set_text (string const & text)
{
- _text->set (text);
+ if (text.empty ()) {
+ _text->set (" ");
+ } else {
+ _text->set (text);
+ }
boost::optional<Rect> bbox = _text->bounding_box ();
assert (bbox);