On Wed, Jun 10, 2015, at 11:03, Laura Creighton wrote: > In these unicode days, this thinking may need to be revisited. There > are many languages where whitespace does not separate words -- either > words aren't separated, or in Vietnamese, spaces separate syllables, > so entire words have spaces in them.
Text wrapping for CJK scripts is another topic that might be worth addressing in textwrap - words aren't space-separated, but there are still rules about where you can place a line break. Generally these are centered around preventing punctuation marks from being orphaned rather than any attempt to algorithmically find word boundaries. For the process called "Oikomi", while messing with kerning is not strictly possible for monospaced text, it might be worthwhile in general to have "preferred" and "maximum" line widths as parameters for textwrap. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_breaking_rules_in_East_Asian_languages -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list