On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 04:28:16PM -0500, Ben Combee wrote:
> On 6/13/07, M. Dietrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >i encounter a strange effect with GetStringBreak. it cuts the string
> >nicely at blank-delimiters to fit the width but words that are too
> >long are not split. instead ret_next_line is the same as before and
> >ret_str_length is a smaller value than expected (more chars could be
> >put on that line - blanks ignored).
> >
> >is this correct behavior? or a bug? how should a program react here?
>
> This sounds like a bug to me. Looking at the code, there's no check
> to see if the word is the only word on a line
>
> The documentation for this API doesn't describe how it handles a word
> that's too long, so a patch for this would update the behavior and
> also document that when there is only one word, the code will truncate
> the word and return a pointer into the middle of the word.
would be very nice to have a simple method that supports
hyphenation, perhaps with a callback-function. what do you think?
best regards,
michael
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