Re: [PATCH setup] Fix Chinese Help Message fall in dead loop .

[Brian Inglis <Brian.Inglis@SystematicSW.ab.ca>]

On 2024-03-28 19:40, 赵伟 via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> ---
>   libgetopt++/include/getopt++/DefaultFormatter.h | 1 +
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/libgetopt++/include/getopt++/DefaultFormatter.h b/libgetopt++/include/getopt++/DefaultFormatter.h
> index ee2397f5..43c253a5 100644
> --- a/libgetopt++/include/getopt++/DefaultFormatter.h
> +++ b/libgetopt++/include/getopt++/DefaultFormatter.h
> @@ -64,6 +64,7 @@ class DefaultFormatter {
>          {
>            // TODO: consider using a line breaking strategy here.
>            int pos = helpmsg.substr(0,h_len).find_last_of(" ");
> +         if(!pos)break; /*In Chinese Helpmsg,may has no space,so pos ==0,and code will fall in dead loop here*/
>            theStream << helpmsg.substr(0,pos)
>                      << std::endl << std::string (o_len, ' ');
>            helpmsg.erase (0,pos+1);

It seems that the best approach for Chinese translations would be to:

- add spaces at sentence or word breaks in translations before 35 or 45 bytes, 
if that is the length unit, worth of characters are output in each column; or

- add a language dependent line breaking strategy, to honour characters not to 
be placed at the beginning or ends of lines or split; or

- split between characters, as with long strings in other languages.

-- 
Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis              Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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