NAME¶
dotextwrap - line-folding (text-wrapping) filter program with i18n support
SYNOPSIS¶
dotextwrap [<columns> [<tabs> [<header1> [<header2>]]]]
DESCRIPTION¶
dotextwrap is a small filter to wrap text or fold lines. Text-wrapping
means formatting a given text by adding newline characters at proper positions
so that the text fits the given width (or number of columns) of the terminal.
Since this is a filter, it reads from standard input and writes to standard
output.
Unlike other softwares, this supports internationalization.
At first, this automatically detects the
current LC_CTYPE locale and
follows it.
Next, this supports
multibyte encodings such as UTF-8 and EUC-JP. In
multibyte encodings, one character consists from one or more bytes.
Third, this supports
fullwidth characters such as CJK Ideogram, Katakana,
Hiragana, and Hangul. These characters occupy two columns per one character on
the terminal.
Forth, this supports
combining characters such as Thai and accents for
Latin scripts. These characters occupy zero columns per one character on the
terminal.
Fifth, this supports languages which do not use whitespaces between words. In
these languages, lines can be folded at any places with small amount of
exception (such as before commas).
SEE ALSO¶
Manual pages of
textwrap(3),
setlocale(3),
locale(7),
charsets(7), and
UTF-8(7).
AUTHOR¶
Tomohiro KUBOTA <kubota@debian.org>.