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Aleksa Sarai 6f1b70e5eb util.utf8: improve CJK character detection
Previously the CJK character detection defined only characters in the
range U+4000..U+AFFF as "CJK characters". This excludes an incredibly
large number of CJK characters within the BMP, let alone the whole two
planes dedicated to rarer CJK characters (the SIP and TIP). As a result,
a very large number of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean characters were not
detected as being CJK characters.

While slightly less elegant-looking, it is far more accurate to compute
the codepoint from the utf8 character and then see if it falls within
one of the defined CJK blocks. This is not future-proof against future
CJK ideograph extensions in future Unicode versions, but there is no
real way to accurately predict such changes so this is the best we can
do without accidentally treating characters explicitily defined as being
non-CJK in Unicode as CJK.

While we're at it, copy Lua 5.3's utf8.charpattern constant definition
so that we can more easily write utf8 iterators with string.gmatch (at
least in the interim until there is a rework of utf8 handling in
KOReader and everything is rebuilt on top of utf8proc).

Some unit tests are added for Korean and Japanese text, and the existing
unit tests needed a minor adjustment to handle the fact that
isSplittable now correctly detects CJK punctuation as a character to
compare against the forbidden split rules.

Signed-off-by: Aleksa Sarai <cyphar@cyphar.com>
3 years ago
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unit util.utf8: improve CJK character detection 3 years ago