[debian-devel:17678] Forward: Re: Bug#552201: groff-base: Japanese manpages are shown with too wide spaces

[Kenshi Muto <kmuto@xxxxxxxx>]

武藤＠Debianぷろじぇくとです。

現在squeeze/sidで日本語のmanページに対してmanを実行すると、場所により
ASCII文字/日本語文字間で妙にスペースが空いた状態になると思います。

これまでのCJKパッチがいろいろ中途半端なので削除したというのが主因なの
ですが、それに代わるcharclassというものをメンテナのcjwatsonが開発を
試みたものの、頓挫します。

詳細についてはBug#552201をご覧いただくとして、どなたか開発の引き継ぎ
or 新しい手法の実装にチャレンジしてみる方はいませんか？

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• From: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
• Subject: Re: Bug#552201: groff-base: Japanese manpages are shown with too wide spaces
• Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2009 15:36:55 +0100
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On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 05:03:40PM +0900, Kenshi Muto wrote:
> Package: groff-base
> Version: 1.20.1-6
> Severity: normal
> 
> Hi,
> I noticed some whitespaces of Japanese manpages are shown too wide
> after I upgraded my Debian from Lenny to Sid.
> 
> I think this problem is what you noted on 1.20.1-1,
>   * Dropped multibyte patch. CJK is partially supported by way of Unicode
>     input, but widths are wrong and proper line breaking is not implemented;
>     this is planned to be added by way of "character classes". However, I
>     can't justify holding new groff code out of Debian any longer when CJK
>     manual pages can more or less be read with the new release.

Indeed so. My initial work on this is in
https://code.launchpad.net/~cjwatson/groff/charclass, but I haven't had
any time to work on it recently.

-- 
Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson@debian.org]

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