#12803: Integrate ICU's line-break handling into BTextView
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Reporter: richienyhus | Owner: axeld
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: R2
Component: Kits/Interface Kit | Version:
Keywords: | Blocked By:
Blocking: | Has a Patch: 0
Platform: All |
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Some laungaues are written without any spaces between words, meaning that
the implementation as used in BTextView is not sophisticated enough to
handle these languages.
We can inprove ''BTextView::_FindLineBreak'' and friends by calling ICU's
[http://icu-project.org/apiref/icu4c/classicu_1_1BreakIterator.html
BreakIterator] to handle some of the line breaking and its
[http://userguide.icu-project.org/boundaryanalysis analysis] for complex
scripts.
This been brought up before in an unsuccessfull GCI [https://www.google-
melange.com/gci/task/view/google/gci2011/7116226 task], which suggested a
complete replacement of our line breaking code with that of ICU's
implementation.
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