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Author loewis
Recipients Arfrever, Nicholas.Cole, ezio.melotti, inigoserna, loewis, poq, tchrist, vstinner, zeha
Date 2012-03-10.18:56:43
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> I would encourage you to look at the Perl CPAN module Unicode::LineBreak,
> which fully implements tr11.

Thanks for the pointer!

> If you'd like, I can show you a program that uses these, a rewrite the
> standard Unix fmt(1) filter that works properly on Unicode column widths.

I believe there can't be any truly "proper" implementation, as you
can't be certain how the terminal will handle these itself. In any
case, anybody who is interested in contributing a patch should also
be capable of understanding the source of Unicode::LineBreak.
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2012-03-10 18:56:44loewissetrecipients: + loewis, vstinner, ezio.melotti, Arfrever, inigoserna, zeha, poq, Nicholas.Cole, tchrist
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