On Fri, 14 Jan 2011 06:29:27 -0800 (PST) leoboiko <leobo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > And it generally doesn’t try to pick good places to break lines > at all, just making the assumption that 1 character = 1 column > and that breaking on ASCII whitespaces/hyphens is enough. We > can’t really blame textwrap for that, it is a very simple module > and Unicode line breaking gets complex fast (that’s why the > consortium provides a ready-made algorithm). It’s just that, > with python3’s emphasis on Unicode support, I was surprised not > to be able to find an UAX #14 implementation. I thought someone > would surely have written one and I simply couldn’t find, so I > asked precisely that.
If you're willing to help on that matter (or some aspects of them, textwrap-specific or not), you can open an issue on http://bugs.python.org and propose a patch. See also http://docs.python.org/devguide/#contributing if you need more info on how to contribute. Regards Antoine. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
