En Wed, 27 Jun 2007 04:20:52 -0300, Andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió:
> I'm writing a piece of software for some Thai friend. At the end it > is supposed to print on paper some report with tables of text and > numbers. When I test it in English, the columns are aligned nicely, > but when he tests it with Thai data, the columns are all crooked. > > The problem here is that in the Thai writing system some times two or > more characters together might take one single space, for example งิ > (u"\u0E07\u0E34"). This is why when I use something like u"%10s" > % ..., it just doesn't work as expected. > > Is anybody aware of an alternative string format function that can > deal with this kind of writing properly? The same thing happens even in English if you print using a proportional width font, a "W" is usually wider than an "i" or "l" letter. You could use a reporting library or program (like ReportLab, generating PDF files), but perhaps the simplest approach is to generate an HTML page containing a table, and display and print it using your favorite browser. -- Gabriel Genellina -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
