Message 155343 - Python tracker

➜

This issue tracker has been migrated to GitHub, and is currently read-only.
For more information, see the GitHub FAQs in the Python's Developer Guide.

Author	loewis
Recipients	Arfrever, Nicholas.Cole, ezio.melotti, inigoserna, loewis, poq, tchrist, vstinner, zeha
Date	2012-03-10.18:56:43
SpamBayes Score	2.3689828e-11
Marked as misclassified	No
Message-id	<4F5BA3EB.8020701@v.loewis.de>
In-reply-to	<1127.1331398702@chthon>

Content
> I would encourage you to look at the Perl CPAN module Unicode::LineBreak, > which fully implements tr11. Thanks for the pointer! > If you'd like, I can show you a program that uses these, a rewrite the > standard Unix fmt(1) filter that works properly on Unicode column widths. I believe there can't be any truly "proper" implementation, as you can't be certain how the terminal will handle these itself. In any case, anybody who is interested in contributing a patch should also be capable of understanding the source of Unicode::LineBreak.

> I would encourage you to look at the Perl CPAN module Unicode::LineBreak,
> which fully implements tr11.

Thanks for the pointer!

> If you'd like, I can show you a program that uses these, a rewrite the
> standard Unix fmt(1) filter that works properly on Unicode column widths.

I believe there can't be any truly "proper" implementation, as you
can't be certain how the terminal will handle these itself. In any
case, anybody who is interested in contributing a patch should also
be capable of understanding the source of Unicode::LineBreak.

History
Date	User	Action	Args
2012-03-10 18:56:44	loewis	set	recipients: + loewis, vstinner, ezio.melotti, Arfrever, inigoserna, zeha, poq, Nicholas.Cole, tchrist
2012-03-10 18:56:43	loewis	link	issue12568 messages
2012-03-10 18:56:43	loewis	create