Subject: Re: Patch: Encoding Manager
From: Andrew Dunbar (hippietrail@yahoo.com)
Date: Sun Jun 03 2001 - 12:21:16 CDT
ha shao wrote:
>
> On Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 11:34:07AM +0200, huftis@bigfoot.com wrote:
> > > all CJK langauges to break word at any character. The corectness of that
> > > list is guaranteed for chinese only. So please edit that list according to
> > > your knowledge.
> >
> > You can find (complete) details on line breaking at <URL:
> > http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr14/ >.
> >
>
> Seems pango has a full scale implementation on unicode line breaking/paragraph
> breaking. It might be easier to have the line breaking things done
> based on pango. Pango is portable to.
If Abi is to be truly multilingual we'll have a horrible time doing
line breaking in Thai for one example. Thai uses no spaces between
words and no punctuation but words can not be broken and line ends.
Doing it properly typically requires a dictionary. It would be nice
to use something of Pango's quality that knows how to do this sort
of thing. (MS Word reputedly handles Thai perfectly).
Andrew.
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