Re: I18N (Multibyte Enablation) of debconf

[Peter Karlsson <peter@softwolves.pp.se>]

Denis Barbier:

> Right, but there is another problem: when a translated text is
> retrieved (either via the debconf protocol or by gettext()),
> you do not know the language of this translated text.

You normally do not need to know the language to wrap text, have a look
at the Unicode line-breaking algorithm. You only need to know the
language for very complex languages (like Thai), otherwise the rules
applies based on the script used, not the language.

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