[Alpine-info] Pico does not wrap for Chinese

[Mike Miller]

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


> On Fri, 5 Jun 2009, Aidan Wilson wrote:

>

>>> But the only good solution would be algorithms that understand East 

>>> Asian languages well enough to determine good line breaks.

>>

>> As a linguist, I'd encourage you not to hold your breath.

>

> I think formatting East Asian characters correctly would not be related 

> to linguistics. There are some text editors handle Chinese quite neatly 

> such as Emacs 23 and Vim 7.



I think emacs 23 is still in beta testing, right?  But if you it is 
working well for you, have you tried using it as an alternative editor in 
Alpine?  If so, does the text look good when you send it with Alpine?

Mike