\t not worked for string in the Label

[nekronk]

Operating system or device:
Windows 10

Issue description (what happened, and what was expected):
\t not worked in the method set_text() for Label object
Example:
get_node("Label").set_text('tab test**\t**wwww')

Steps to reproduce:

1. Create the Control node
2. Create the Label node in the Control
3. Create new script for Control node
4. Set script text:

extends Control

func _ready():
    get_node("Label").set_text('tab test\twwww')

Link to minimal example project (optional but very welcome):
See screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/Dw6y6YE.png

[StraToN]

Very close to #2967
Maybe consider merging both issues?

[akien-mga]

Indeed, closing as duplicate of #2967. I'll add a mention about \t and Label there.

[DarthSmart]

Apparently \t still doesnt work for Labels in 3.4.2 🤨

[Calinou]

Apparently \t still doesnt work for Labels in 3.4.2 raised_eyebrow

You can generally replace it with four spaces to get a similar appearance (or 1-3 spaces if there's already text before the tab character):

$SomeLabel.text = "\tHello world".replace("\t", "    ")

[VapidLinus]

This was closed but was not fixed by the linked PR. Issue still present in Godot 4

[bruvzg]

It's not a bug as such, tab width is context dependent, and by default, tab character in most of the fonts is zero width. But I guess adding an option to enable tab stops for the Label will make sense (since RichTextLable already support it).