Hi Thomas, On Wed, 8 Jan 2003 00:17:44 +0700 Thomas Fernandez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> What's next? Simple: The Bat! has to wrap each line at XX (e.g. 72) >> characters. But it shouldn't wrap in the middle of a word, but only >> between them AND not after XX characters. >> So The Bat! has to spplit up these one very long line into single >> words, take the first one and check for "length() <= 72". If this is >> true it adds the next word and checks again ... until this conditio >> is false. > This is the problem TB has with Chinese. There are no spaces between > characters in Chinese writing, so TB doesn't insert a line break after > 72 of them. But it should. TB considers a whole paragraph as one word, > so doesn't insert a line break. This is why I have heard Taiwanese > people saying TB is unusable. :-( So it's up to those who are familar with Chinese to make statements about how the editor can distinguish when "a word" or a "package of symbols that build a entity of sense" is over for inserting the line break. Or does every single symbol is it's own "entity" and therefore the line break can be inserted at 72 characters regardless of the following symbol? If so it should be rather easy to implement wrapping rules for Chinese written mails. -- Pit ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.62 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
