On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 02:15:58AM +0900, Tomohiro KUBOTA wrote: > Hi, > > From: Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: I18N (Multibyte Enablation) of debconf > Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 17:01:48 -0400 > > > I think I prefer the idea of a separate package. I think that making it > > use the same interface as Text::Wrap, as you have, is a good idea. I > > also think you'd do well to make the separate package as general-purpose > > as you can, so it is not tied to debconf and could be used by other perl > > programs that need to word-wrap i18nized text. Put it on CPAN, etc. > > I wrote separate packages of libtext-wrapi18n-perl and > libtext-charwidth-perl. The reason why I made as many as two > additional packages is that libtext-wrapi18n-perl is architecture > independent while libtext-charwidth-perl is architecture dependent.
Did you write something similar in C? It should be pretty useful, e.g. in cdebconf (a rewrite of debconf in C for the debian-installer, see http://cvs.debian.org/debian-installer/tools/cdebconf/src/strutl.c the strwrap() function) or tasksel (reflowtext() function in strutl.c), and certainly also when displaying translated package descriptions. Denis
