FW: extracting words

[Mike Lischke]

> 
> Yes, we have had it for a long time; no, nobody has solved it 
> entirely; and yes, this approach is wrong. Breaking a string into 
> words may require a thorough understanding of the vocabulary and 
> grammar of the language, and even that may not be enough.

But how can we then ever have a reliable word-break algorithm? It cannot be that, say, 
for a simple editor (be it written in Java or whatever) you have to supply a database 
with language specific details just to do automatic word wrap.

Ciao, Mike