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# boundingRect(forGlyph:)

Returns the bounding rectangle for the specified glyph, scaled to the receiver’s size.

```
func boundingRect(forGlyph glyph: NSGlyph) -> NSRect
```

## Discussion

Japanese fonts encoded with the scheme “EUC12-NJE-CFEncoding” do not have individual metrics or bounding boxes available for the glyphs above 127. For those glyphs, this method returns the bounding rectangle for the font instead.

## See Also

[`boundingRectForFont`](/documentation/AppKit/NSFont/boundingRectForFont)

The font’s bounding rectangle, scaled to the font’s size.


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