On Jun 27, 3:10 am, Leo Kislov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jun 27, 12:20 am, Andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi guys, > > > 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? > > In general case it's impossible to write such a function for many > unicode characters without feedback from rendering library. > Assuming you use *fixed* font for English and Thai the following > function will return how many columns your text will use: > > from unicodedata import category > def columns(self, s): > return sum(1 for c in s if category(c) != 'Mn')
That should of course be written as def columns(s). Need to learn to proofread before posting :) -- Leo -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
