[issue30680] textwrap should treat Unicode em-dash like ASCII em-dash

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[issue30680] textwrap should treat Unicode em-dash like ASCII em-dash

Inada Naoki added the comment: > Agreed. It makes great sense that textwrap started as highly ASCII-centric. > But in the Python 3, Unicode-friendly era, ASCII-biased isn't where we should > leave things. It needs Unicode experts. If we support Unicode, we should implemente UAX #14.

[issue30680] textwrap should treat Unicode em-dash like ASCII em-dash

Jonathan Eunice added the comment: Agreed. It makes great sense that textwrap started as highly ASCII-centric. But in the Python 3, Unicode-friendly era, ASCII-biased isn't where we should leave things. -- ___ Python tracker

[issue30680] textwrap should treat Unicode em-dash like ASCII em-dash

R. David Murray added the comment: This seems sensible to me (I haven't looked at the PR, I'm talking about adding the support). When textwrap was written python was pretty ascii oriented, so it is not too much of a surprise that unicode em dashes were not supported. -- nosy:

[issue30680] textwrap should treat Unicode em-dash like ASCII em-dash

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[issue30680] textwrap should treat Unicode em-dash like ASCII em-dash

New submission from Jonathan Eunice: The textwrap module goes to great lengths to "do the right thing" when it finds the ASCII simulation of an em-dash (two or more consecutive hyphens), but it does nothing to recognize and similarly treat true (Unicode) em-dashes (aka '\N{EM DASH}',