Jens Alfke, on Monday, November 11, 2019 12:47 PM, wrote... > > Hang on — why exactly 20 characters? Of text in an arbitrary language, which > is to be displayed in an arbitrary font, with an arbitrary line width? > > I don't know about you, but the only time I think about "exactly 20 > characters" is when I'm writing to a terminal window. Most of the time that's > ASCII, and even if it isn't, Asian characters are going to be double-width, > and emojis might render an arbitrary number of code points to a single-width > graphic. So "20 characters" still doesn't map to a fixed width onscreen. > > If I'm writing a report, I more likely want to render only the first _line_ > of a string, i.e. enough text to fill some number of > points/millimeters/pixels of space, possibly minus an ellipsis. That is a job > for a text rendering library, not `writeflen`.
Compared to me, you are a genius in everything, but you just lack a little bit of understanding about other languages and their localization behavior. As a Technical Project Manager for 12 years on my last job, all of these statements that I am making, and yours above, were part of my daily routines. Translating website, reports, documentation, a Printer's GUI,..., etc. from 2 to 23 languages involves a lot of these little nuances you are bringing above. Unless you are deep in these projects people have no idea what it takes to translate a document, keep a translation memory, right to left behavior, expanding and contracting, and a bunch of other nick-picky customers translation demands. If I had time, I would keep this going, :-). Thanks. josé _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@mailinglists.sqlite.org http://mailinglists.sqlite.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
