[sylpheed:31914] Re: Small problem with warapping of long lines

[Gene Goldenfeld]

Hiroyuki Yamamoto <hiro-y at kcn.ne.jp> wrote:

>Hello,
>
>On Tue, 30 Oct 2007 11:47:31 -0500
>Gene Goldenfeld <genegold at peoplepc.com> wrote:
>
>> Line breaking and word wrapping on symbols was discussed in 2006 and
>> from Hiro's point of view is not considered a bug or incorrect.  I
>> don't recall it occurring in other major email clients or text
>> editors I've used, but with Sylpheed there it is.  And it is
>> irritating, because it requires extra editing and reediting when even
>> the most ordinary text symbols are used, such as hyphens.
>
>Sylpheed relies on the Pango's line break feature. Sylpheed asks to
>Pango for possible line-breaking positions. As far as I tested, it
>seems that Pango considers in front of euro sign (and other symbols) as
>line-breakable position. To solve this, some characters might be
>handled as special cases. But it can also possible that my usage of
>Pango is wrong :)

Hiro, One question is if the setup is correct, why do complete headers
copied into another email break lines incorrectly in Sylpheed, but
the same Sylpheed headers set up correctly in other email applications?
That just doesn't make sense to me if Pango or your interpretation of
it is correct.

Gene