Re: [E-devel] Evas Word-Wrapping and Long Chinese String

[Brian W. <bri...@gm...>]

> Your patch assumes that an UTF8 character initiates a new word. That is
> wrong for the most European language, if not for all. So there must be
> another solution. Maybe a hybrid of word and character wrap? I.e. try to
> wrap a word (separated by a white space) first, if this is not possible, do
> a character wrap. I don't know if this is a good solution. But it would work
> at least for European languages and Chinese more or less.

I know my patch is far from perfect.  It is merely good for my own purpose.
Does the current (svn) implementation of the word-wrapping works for
European languages?

>
> Regards Peter
>>
>> Here is the simple patch:
>> Index: canvas/evas_object_textblock.c
>> ===================================================================
>> --- canvas/evas_object_textblock.c      (revision 43223)
>> +++ canvas/evas_object_textblock.c      (working copy)
>> @@ -1607,6 +1607,16 @@
>>  _layout_word_start(char *str, int start)
>>  {
>>    int p, tp, chr = 0;
>> +
>> +   //
>> +   // coolbrian: break if the word is not within the ASCII range
>> +   //   @note This is good for breaking up Chinese words, which are
>> made of Chinese characters.
>> +   //         Chinese characters do not look strange if they are not
>> grouped to form a 'phrase'.
>> +   //         Also, Chinese 'phrases' are of too many patterns and
>> probably need a dictionary to look up.
>> +   //         That would be too much.
>> +   //
>> +   if (((unsigned char)str[start]) >= 0x80)
>> +     return start;
>>
>>    p = start;
>>    chr = evas_common_font_utf8_get_next((unsigned char *)(str), &p);
>>
>>
>>
>
>



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