I've been using a program called par (offsite link) for quite some years now. It's a paragraph reformatter that I use mainly to justify text. When changed my system configuration to use UTF-8 everywhere (keyboard input, terminal output and so), par broke. Last weekend I searched some Perl module to replace it's functionality and, from the several results of my CPAN search, I picked one of which its description souded well: Text::Autoformat, by TheDamian. I'm encountering some problems with it but first, I'll show you the data (I replaced some characters with non-ASCII ones).

Original data

  15:06. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Fus
+ce
ligula. Curabitur blandit dui ut urna. Nullam vel eros. Mauris rhoncus
+ sem.
Dóńéc luctus velit eget quam. Mauris pellentesque. Vivamus quam. Mauri
+s
ságittis vulputate mauris. Nulla consequat est aliquam urna fringilla
lacinia. Nunc auctor sagittis tortor.

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Actual output

$ perl -MText::Autoformat -e'
undef $/;
print autoformat +<>, {
  right   => 78,
  justify => "full",
  all     => 1,
  lists   => 0,
}' < lorem-ipsum2
  15:06. Lorem ipsum dolor  sit  amet,  consectetuer  adipiscing  elit
+.  Fusce
  ligula. Curabitur blandit dui ut urna. Nullam vel eros. Mauris rhonc
+us  sem.
  Dóńéc luctus velit eget quam. Mauris pellentesque. Vivamus  quam.  M
+auris
  ságittis vulputate mauris.  Nulla  consequat  est  aliquam  urna  fr
+ingilla
  lacinia. Nunc auctor sagittis tortor.

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Desired output

  15:06.  Lorem ipsum  dolor  sit amet,  consectetuer  adipiscing elit
+.  Fusce
ligula. Curabitur  blandit dui ut urna.  Nullam vel eros. Mauris  rhon
+cus sem.
Dóńéc  luctus  velit eget  quam.  Mauris  pellentesque. Vivamus  quam.
+  Mauris
ságittis  vulputate  mauris.  Nulla   consequat  est  aliquam  urna  f
+ringilla
lacinia. Nunc auctor sagittis tortor.

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There are two issues here:

Is there anything I can do to sort these out? I suspect the first problem can only be solved by modifying the code but maybe the second is easier.

Update: Tagged the par link as offsite.

--
David Serrano

In reply to Text::Autoformat: usage and multibyte-encoded text by Hue-Bond

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