NAME¶
Text::WrapI18N - Line wrapping module with support for multibyte, fullwidth, and
combining characters and languages without whitespaces between words
SYNOPSIS¶
use Text::WrapI18N qw(wrap $columns);
wrap(firstheader, nextheader, texts);
DESCRIPTION¶
This module intends to be a better Text::Wrap module. This module is needed to
support multibyte character encodings such as UTF-8, EUC-JP, EUC-KR, GB2312,
and Big5. This module also supports characters with irregular widths, such as
combining characters (which occupy zero columns on terminal, like diacritical
marks in UTF-8) and fullwidth characters (which occupy two columns on
terminal, like most of east Asian characters). Also, minimal handling of
languages which doesn't use whitespaces between words (like Chinese and
Japanese) is supported.
Like Text::Wrap, hyphenation and "kinsoku" processing are not
supported, to keep simplicity.
wrap(firstheader, nextheader, texts) is the main subroutine of
Text::WrapI18N module to execute the line wrapping. Input parameters and
output data emulate Text::Wrap. The texts have to be written in locale
encoding.
SEE ALSO¶
locale(5),
utf-8(7),
charsets(7)
AUTHOR¶
Tomohiro KUBOTA, <kubota@debian.org>
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE¶
Copyright 2003 by Tomohiro KUBOTA
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the same terms as Perl itself.