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| author | Karl Williamson <khw@cpan.org> | 2016-01-18 14:25:02 -0700 |
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| committer | Karl Williamson <khw@cpan.org> | 2016-01-19 15:08:59 -0700 |
| commit | 6b659339f976d014a1a53731d86cedd01f5921ec (patch) | |
| tree | 852b02830e8b19bf700af95791214485d1f4e2e8 /pod/perlunicode.pod | |
| parent | ca8226cfa2cc0ddcc50f60505c42078df8e3b766 (diff) | |
| download | perl-6b659339f976d014a1a53731d86cedd01f5921ec.tar.gz | |
Add qr/\b{lb}/
This adds the final Unicode boundary type previously missing from core
Perl: the LineBreak one. This feature is already available in the
Unicode::LineBreak module, but I've been told that there are portability
and some other issues with that module. What's added here is a
light-weight version that is lacking the customizable features of the
module.
This implements the default Line Breaking algorithm, but with the
customizations that Unicode is expecting everybody to add, as their
test file tests for them. In other words, this passes Unicode's fairly
extensive furnished tests, but wouldn't if it didn't include certain
customizations specified by Unicode beyond the basic algorithm.
The implementation uses a look-up table of the characters surrounding a
boundary to see if it is a suitable place to break a line. In a few
cases, context needs to be taken into account, so there is code in
addition to the lookup table to handle those.
This should meet the needs for line breaking of many applications,
without having to load the module.
The algorithm is somewhat independent of the Unicode version, just like
the other boundary types. Only if new rules are added, or existing ones
modified is there need to go in and change this code. Otherwise,
running regen/mk_invlists.pl should be sufficient when a new Unicode
release is done to keep it up-to-date, again like the other Unicode
boundary types.
Diffstat (limited to 'pod/perlunicode.pod')
| -rw-r--r-- | pod/perlunicode.pod | 8 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perlunicode.pod b/pod/perlunicode.pod index eb23d55cc1..775a4307a4 100644 --- a/pod/perlunicode.pod +++ b/pod/perlunicode.pod @@ -1176,11 +1176,15 @@ Also, lines should not be split within C<CRLF> (i.e. there is no empty line between C<\r> and C<\n>). For C<CRLF>, try the C<:crlf> layer (see L<PerlIO>). -=item [9] But C<L<Unicode::LineBreak>> is available. +=item [9] But C<qr/\b{lb}/> and C<L<Unicode::LineBreak>> are available. -This module supplies line breaking conformant with +L<C<qrE<sol>\b{lb}E<sol>>|perlrebackslash/\b{lb}> supplies default line +breaking conformant with L<UAX#14 "Unicode Line Breaking Algorithm"|http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr14>. +And, the module C<L<Unicode::LineBreak>> also conformant with UAX#14, +provides customizable line breaking. + =item [10] UTF-8/UTF-EBDDIC used in Perl allows not only C<U+10000> to C<U+10FFFF> but also beyond C<U+10FFFF> |