wrapi18n(3pm)
NAME
Text::WrapI18N - Line wrapping module with support for multibyte,
fullwidth, and combining characters and languages without whitespaces
between words
SYNOPSIS
use Text::WrapI18N qw(wrap $columns); wrap(firstheader, nextheader, texts);
DESCRIPTION
This module intends to be a better Text::Wrap module. This module is
needed to support multibyte character encodings such as UTF-8, EUC-JP,
EUC-KR, GB2312, and Big5. This module also supports characters with
irregular widths, such as combining characters (which occupy zero
columns on terminal, like diacritical marks in UTF-8) and fullwidth
characters (which occupy two columns on terminal, like most of east
Asian characters). Also, minimal handling of languages which doesn't
use whitespaces between words (like Chinese and Japanese) is supported.
Like Text::Wrap, hyphenation and "kinsoku" processing are not
supported, to keep simplicity.
wrap(firstheader, nextheader, texts) is the main subroutine of
Text::WrapI18N module to execute the line wrapping. Input parameters
and output data emulate Text::Wrap. The texts have to be written in
locale encoding.
SEE ALSO
locale(5), utf-8(7), charsets(7)
AUTHOR
Tomohiro KUBOTA, <kubota@debian.org>
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
Copyright 2003 by Tomohiro KUBOTA
- This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the same terms as Perl itself.