Some Asian langagues allow to wrap text at any position

This is hardcoded for now for simplicity and to allow backporting to
2.3.

The behavior is unchanged for all languages but Chinese, Japanese or
Korean.

Fixes part of bug #10299.

diff --git a/src/Row.cpp b/src/Row.cpp
index 697e526094b7f399801f4d62d24f7b39f5fc503a..63b7195af450fbed83cc55f5987070ff8979f88f 100644 (file)
--- a/src/Row.cpp
+++ b/src/Row.cpp
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
 #include "Row.h"
 
 #include "DocIterator.h"
+#include "Language.h"
 
 #include "frontends/FontMetrics.h"
 
@@ -479,7 +480,25 @@ bool Row::shortenIfNeeded(pos_type const keep, int const w, int const next_width
                // make a copy of the element to work on it.
                Element brk = *cit_brk;
                wid_brk -= brk.dim.wid;
-               if (brk.countSeparators() == 0 || brk.pos < keep)
+               /*
+                * Some Asian languages split lines anywhere (no notion of
+                * word). It seems that QTextLayout is not aware of this fact.
+                * See for reference:
+                *    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_breaking_rules_in_East_Asian_languages
+                *
+                * FIXME: Something shall be done about characters which are
+                * not allowed at the beginning or end of line.
+                *
+                * FIXME: hardcoding languages is bad. Put this information in
+                * `languages' file.
+               */
+               string const lang = brk.font.language()->lang();
+               bool force = lang == "chinese-simplified"
+                            || lang == "chinese-traditional"
+                            || lang == "japanese"
+                            || lang == "korean";
+               // FIXME: is it important to check for separators?
+               if ((!force && brk.countSeparators() == 0) || brk.pos < keep)
                        continue;
                /* We have found a suitable separable element. This is the common case.
                 * Try to break it cleanly (at word boundary) at a length that is both
@@ -487,7 +506,7 @@ bool Row::shortenIfNeeded(pos_type const keep, int const w, int const next_width
                 * - shorter than the natural width of the element, in order to enforce
                 *   break-up.
                 */
-               if (brk.breakAt(min(w - wid_brk, brk.dim.wid - 2), false)) {
+               if (brk.breakAt(min(w - wid_brk, brk.dim.wid - 2), force)) {
                        /* if this element originally did not cause a row overflow
                         * in itself, and the remainder of the row would still be
                         * too large after breaking, then we will have issues in