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Unicode-LineBreak - UAX #14 Unicode Line Breaking Algorithm
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Unicode-LineBreak Package is Copyright (C) 2009-2018,
by Hatuka*nezumi - IKEDA Soji.

This package is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it 
under the same terms as Perl itself.

Prerequisites
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Perl 5.8.0 or later is required.

Sombok library package is required.  If Sombok had not been installed,
bundled source will be used.
    https://sourceforge.net/projects/linefold/files/

Optionally, LibThai package is needed to support Thai word segmentation:
    http://linux.thai.net/projects/libthai/

Additionally, pkg-config will be required for libthai and/or shared
sombok library.

Install
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To build and install Unicode-LineBreak package, do:

  $ perl Makefile.PL
  $ make
  $ make test
  # make install

If you wish to disable libthai feature explicitly, do:

  $ perl Makefile.PL --with-bundled-sombok --disable-libthai
  $ make
  $ make test
  # make install

Documentations
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Three main modules and some supporting program files are contained. For
more details read following POD documentations:

    Text::LineFold - Line Folding for Plain Text
    Unicode::GCString - String as Sequence of UAX #29 Grapheme Clusters
    Unicode::LineBreak - UAX #14 Unicode Line Breaking Algorithm

For japonophones, PODs in Japanese language are also included:

    POD2::JA::Text::LineFold - プレインテキストの行折り
    POD2::JA::Unicode::GCString - UAX #29 書記素クラスタの列としての文字列
    POD2::JA::Unicode::LineBreak - UAX #14 Unicode 行分割アルゴリズム

For Other Language
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Python
    pytextseg: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pytextseg/

Author
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Hatuka*nezumi - IKEDA Soji <hatuka(at)nezumi.nu>.


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