[Po4a-devel]should we switch to Text::WrapI18N ?

[Martin Quinson]

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On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 12:26:10AM +0200, Jordi Vilalta wrote:
> Hi,
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> On Tue, 17 Aug 2004, Martin Quinson wrote:
> >Hello,
> >
> >while trying to fix the fact that '.  ' is changed '. ', I noticed that
> >there is a Text::WrapI18N on my box, which can handle "strange" languages
> >where all chars do not have the same width or not even a space char.
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> Where does it happen? Is this only a Man.pm issue?

Everywhere.

In Po, we rewrap the msgid making sure that the trailing spaces survive
(since they are important here). In TransTractor, we rewrap the content of
the translation if asked to by the module.

> >Should we switch to it or is the dependency too much? But if not, how to
> >deal with those languages?
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> It's only 6KB, it's very light.

Good news.

> >Indeed, po4a does not use the Text::Wrap module right now, because we wo=
uld
> >loose the spaces at the end of lines (which are important within the po
> >file). But Text::WrapI18N is made by Tomohiro KUBOTA, which I know from =
the
> >debian-i18n mailing list. I'm sure we could get him adding an option for=
 us
> >here.
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> What I don't get at all is where do you want to use it.
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> >Jordi, can you get this library on your box, or is it Debian only?
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> It gave no problem, it's a cpan module. It's not yet in Gentoo, but if we=
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> use it, I can make its package.

Ok, so I guess that's the way do go. Only, really not yet. I'm dead, man.
I'm not gonna make this fucking paper before the deadline.

Mt.

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