On 15/04/11 01:00, Paul B. Gallagher wrote:
I've noticed a strange behavior from SM in my outgoing mail: if I send a
line that exceeds 72 characters and contains Asian text at the end, the
program inserts an extraneous space at every 72nd character, but it
doesn't actually force a line break (more below). For Western text, it
doesn't break words this way, but for Asian text it does.
For example, when I posted the following sentence to a mailing list
(without these line breaks):
I get 27,500 hits for +"핸디폰" (haendiphon), vs. 37.2
million for 핸드폰 (haendeuphon) and 3.4 million for
+"이동 전화" (idong cheonhwa, the native term).
SeaMonkey inserted a space between 핸드 and 폰 (breaking the word), so
the middle of the sentence looked like this:
vs. 37.2 million for 핸드 폰 (haendeuphon)
instead of this:
vs. 37.2 million for 핸드폰 (haendeuphon)
As nearly as I can tell by viewing the source code of this message, SM
did break the line at this point, inserting a space, but unbroke it for
display purposes, and failed to delete the extraneous space when
displaying the message.
So I guess my question is, do we have an option to tell SM not to break
Korean words at line ends? I'd like it to treat them with just as much
respect as English words -- either carry over the entire word, or not.
I don't know if there is an option, but IIUC the reason for this
behaviour is that sometimes in CJK languages whole sentences are written
without word breaks, and linebreaks may happen between any two wide
glyphs if required by the width of the text column.
With the email "format=flowed" convention, the text is transmitted over
the Net in "reasonably" short lines, then reassembled on arrival and
displayed in the whole width of the receiving mailer's window. This
convention was thought up by people using "alphabetic" scripts where all
words are separated by spaces, so whenever a linebreak is suppressed a
space is added in its stead.
I don't see anything relevant in Edit → Preferences, but in about:config
I see two Boolean preferences by filtering on "flowed" (without the
quotes): you might try toggling one of them, the other, or both, and see
what happens.
Best regards,
Tony.
--
Be different: conform.
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