Re: Accepted po-debconf 0.2.2 (all source)
Hi,
At Mon, 16 Sep 2002 11:37:27 -0500,
Steve Langasek wrote:
> Why does any of debconf's perl code need to know the width of characters?
> Isn't it the responsibility of the individual debconf frontends to handle
> formatting & displaying of strings?
Debconf uses Text::Wrap for line folding. It is easily understood
that character width information is needed to line folding. However,
Text::Wrap seems to assume all characters have column number of one,
which is obviously wrong for Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Thai, and so on.
---
Tomohiro KUBOTA <kubota@debian.org>
http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/
"Introduction to I18N" http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/intro-i18n/
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