Re: Word Breaking

From: Daniel Glassey (danglassey-abi@ntlworld.com)
Date: Mon Oct 27 2003 - 18:09:50 EST

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    Jordi Mas wrote:

    > Dom Lachowicz wrote:
    >
    >>> What you guys think?
    >>
    >>
    >>
    >> I definitely agree that this is a problem. I think
    >> that the proposed solution is horrible, though.
    >> Pango has smart algorithms for detecting word
    >> boundaries. Glib does too - in fact, it implments the
    >> Unicode 4.0 algorithms completely and properly. The
    >> correct solution is to use these tools or something
    >> else that uses these algorithms.
    >>
    >> http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/glib/glib-Unicode-Manipulation.html
    >>
    >>
    >
    > OK. How can we implement this? Since, we are going to use glib, we can
    > use these algorithms directly, right?
    >
    > Thanks

    If we are going to just use glib then we would just use these functions
    our own way, if we use pango we will use pango_break to detect the
    boundaries.

    Regards,
    Daniel

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