[sword-devel] Chinese "words"

[Christian Renz]

>I think the right thing to do is to change your layout engine to support
>correct Chinese line wrapping, instead of adding space (which should not be
>there) to work around the limitation in the layout engine.

I second that.

>Neither have space after puncation. No space, period.

Whoops... you're right. Thanks for the correction. I noticed people
don't seem to do it the "correct" way always, though, but I guess it
also depends on the font being used (ie. the glyphs being the correct
width for punctuation marks).

>Second, there are no easy way to parse a word.

That's why I think it would be too complicated to built Chinese word
splitting into Sword, unless e.g. ICU starts to come with a nice
built-in option we can just use. It's just not worth the effort. It's
easier to just let the user make the guess himself.

>google implement very good Chinese search. Maybe you should look at how they do
>the search job.

Again, I think it's overkill for Sword.

Greetings,
   Christian

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