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Sombok - Unicode Text Segmentation Package
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Sombok is Copyright (C) 2009-2012, by Hatuka*nezumi - IKEDA Soji.

It is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the 
terms of either:

a) the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software 
   Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later version, 
   or

b) the "Artistic License".

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See the COPYING and the ARTISTIC files for more details.

What is this
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Sombok library package performs Line Breaking Algorithm described in 
Unicode Standards Annex #14 (UAX #14).  East_Asian_Width informative 
properties defined by Annex #11 (UAX #11) may be concerned to determin 
breaking positions.  This package also implements "default" Grapheme 
Cluster segmentation described in Annex #29 (UAX #29).

Getting Sombok
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You can get Sombok from:
    http://sf.net/projects/linefold/

Prerequisites
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* ANSI C compiler, for example GCC C Compiler, is required.

* Optionally, libthai package need to be installed to support Thai 
  word segmentation:

    http://linux.thai.net/projects/libthai

  In this case pkg-config is also required.

Install
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Extract tarball then run as follows:

  ./configure [options...]

  make

  make check

  make install

``./configure --help`` will show available options.

Language bindings
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Perl
    Unicode-LineBreak: http://search.cpan.org/dist/Unicode-LineBreak/

Python
    pytextseg: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pytextseg/

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

