[Alpine-info] Pico does not wrap for Chinese

[Mark Crispin]

On Fri, 5 Jun 2009, Yao, Zijian wrote:

> It is great that Alpine has improved so much in the Unicode support. But when 

> compose any message in Chinese (under windows vista) with Pico, the 

> auto-wrap/justify function stops working. I am not sure whether this is a 

> configuration issue.


The last that I saw, Pico did not have any special knowledge of Chinese or 
other East Asian languages; it simply assumes that space is a wrap/justify 
opportunity (which it is in Western languages).

Lacking any spaces, it sees a string of East Asia text as one long "word". 
I have the same difficulty with Japanese text.  To help Pico, I often 
insert a space after 、and 。and around「...」quoted texts.  But the only 
good solution would be algorithms that understand East Asian languages 
well enough to determine good line breaks.

-- Mark --

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