tag 310495 forwarded wishlist thanks On Thu, 19 Jan 2006, Teemu Likonen wrote: > I don't mind moving it to the wishlist. I don't use "par" anymore - I > can't. But, this is kind of becoming a bug because Linux distributions > have moved towards UTF-8 locale and there aren't many languages that > can be written with ascii codes 0 - $7f. In Unicode's UTF-8 encoding > all the other codes ($80 - $10ffff) need 2 to 4 bytes. So, as "par" is > mainly for reformatting text with human languages, it has become pretty > useless nowadays as Unicode and UTF-8 has come.
I agree that migrating programs that support char handling to those that have UTF-8 char handling would be a good thing. So I sent the enclosed mail to the upstream author. However, I don't hold out too much hope since the upstream packages have not changed in about four years! Regards, Kapil. -- ========message sent to upstram author==== Hello, Thanks for the program "par" which I have been using for a while now via its Debian package. Recently a bug has been filed against the Debian package of "par" for its inability to handle multi-byte characters (http://bugs.debian.org/310495 for details). Specifically, in UTF-8 encoding many bytes make up a single "unicode character" and this disturbs "par"'s count of word length while right-justifying text. Do you have plans to incorporate the handling of such text in "par" at some point? Alternatively, do you think that this is a feasible/worthwhile addition for someone else to work on (I might be able to find someone---may be even myself)? Thanks and regards, Kapil. -- ===========================================
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