Tony Mechelynck wrote:
On 15/04/11 01:00, Paul B. Gallagher wrote:
...
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.
Korean does space between words, but still, they break lines whenever
they happen to reach the margin (and they don't hyphenate). The logical
problem, of course, is that once a space has been inserted, it looks
exactly like an original one.
The only way this could work would be if the system didn't insert spaces
in the first place, so lines could end with spaces or not as the case
might be. Then when it reassembled the lines for display purposes, the
original spaces would survive and the original nulls would as well. Is
there some reason every line must end with a space?
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.
Sorry, no joy. One affects whether text is reassembled or not, and the
choices seem to be to reassemble the lines and wrap to window size,
retaining the extraneous space (that's what I had) or else don't
reassemble and just wrap at 72 characters. The other one has no effect.
--
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Paul B. Gallagher
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