Re: WRAP_WORD with CJK

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

HideToshi Tajima <hidetoshi tajima eng sun com> writes:

> Hi,
> 
> I have a problem in GtkTextView of testtext. Word wrapping with CJK text
> (for instance, text in the range of jisx0208.1983 as native charset) does
> not get well. It works fine with text in the range of ascii, latin1, cyrillic, 
> greek, hebrew, and half-width japanese(jisx0201.1976) work well.
> 
> Is this a bug? If so, which module, pango, gtktextview or gtktextlayout,
> should be responsible for it? Have this been filed in bugzilla already?

The default break implementation in pango/pango-break.c should handle
Japanese properly. (It implements algorithms from the Unicode standard
that take care of prohibited breaks, and so forth.) If it doesn't it
is a bug. I haven't it reported yet on bugzilla.

Regards,
                                        Owen