GNU bug report logs - #11948
24.1.50; word-wrap should allow wrapping at all breaking space characters, not just space and tab

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Reuben Thomas <rrt <at> sc3d.org>

Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2012 12:49:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Found in version 24.1.50

Fixed in version 29.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #11 received at 11948 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Reuben Thomas <rrt <at> sc3d.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 11948 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#11948: 24.1.50; word-wrap should allow wrapping at all
	breaking space characters, not just space and tab
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2012 19:21:00 +0100

On 16 July 2012 17:05, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> wrote:
>
> A prerequisite for doing something about this is to decide which
> characters should allow breaking the line.  Is there some guidance in
> the Unicode standard or elsewhere about this?  If not, we will have to
> decide on our own.

The Unicode line breaking algorithm is probably the place to go:

http://unicode.org/reports/tr14/

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