How to draw a number centered inside a circle with inline svg?

I'm trying to write a Django template tag that will generate a number inside a circle as an inline svg.

The math is pretty straight-forward (except for the fudge-factor in real_fontsize -- I'm thinking it has to do with numerals being shorter than the tallest character..?)

@register.inclusion_tag('numcircle.html')
def numcircle(n, size=36, border=4, color='white', background="black", **kw):
    """Draw a circle with a number inside.
    """
    kw['padding'] = kw.get('padding', 2)
    kw['num'] = n
    kw['size'] = size
    kw['border'] = border
    kw['center'] = size / 2
    kw['radius'] = (size / 2) - border
    kw['color'] = color
    kw['background'] = background
    kw['fontsize'] = size - (2 * (border + kw['padding']))
    real_fontsize = kw['fontsize'] * (0.8 if kw['fontsize'] > 25 else 1)
    kw['ypos'] = kw['center'] + real_fontsize / 2 - kw['border'] + kw.get('yadjust', 0)
    kw['xpos'] = kw.get('xpos', size / 2)
    return kw

template:

<svg width="{{ size }}" height="{{ size }}" viewBox="0 0 {{ size }} {{ size }}">
    <circle cx="{{ center }}"
            cy="{{ center }}"
            r="{{ radius }}"
            stroke="{{ color }}"
            stroke-width="{{ border }}"
            fill="{{ background }}"/>
    <text font-size="{{ fontsize }}"
          fill="{{ color }}"
          font-family="Verdana"
          text-anchor="middle"
          alignment-baseline="baseline"
          x="{{ xpos }}"
          y="{{ ypos }}">{{ num }}</text>
</svg>

it produces an svg that renders very nicely in all browsers I have tested, except the native iPad browser, where the number is flush with the bottom of the circle (and not in the center)..

<svg width="44" height="44" viewBox="0 0 44 44">
<circle cx="22"
        cy="22"
        r="20"
        stroke="white"
        stroke-width="2"
        fill="#21435F"/>
<text font-size="36"
      fill="white"
      font-family="Verdana"
      text-anchor="middle"
      alignment-baseline="baseline"
      x="22"
      y="34.4">1</text>
</svg>

Is there any way to work around this issue in a cross-browser (IE9+) fashion?

jsfiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/onLyh6bm/

(using alignment-baseline: middle doesn't seem to align in the middle in any browser..: http://jsfiddle.net/68oamxdo/1/)