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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
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Subject: Re: word boundaries in Asian languages
Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2013 09:51:01 -0400
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> Accurately identifying word boundaries in Chinese is a subject of
> academic research, but a couple of C libraries have emerged (I've pasted
> a couple of likely links at the bottom).

Note also that Emacs already uses some notion of "boundary" for Asian
scripts in its text-filling code (used in fill-paragraph).
I'm sure if you pose on emacs-devel you may learn even more and, who
knows, someone may already have done such a thing.


        Stefan