About the BreakIterator Class (getLineInstance( ) Function )

[Abhishek]

Hello,

has anyone used the breakiterator class and specifically the
LineInstance function in java?
Is it possible to specify any delimiters for the LineInstance function
while it tries to break entities into lines?

it breaks words like P-2345 into P- and 2345 as two separate line
entities. Is it possible for us to specify that it is a single entity?
Thanks

Abhishek S

 

[Stefan Ram]

Is it possible for us to specify that it is a single entity?

You need to provide a suitably instance of

http://download.java.net/jdk7/docs/api/java/util/Locale.html

. To supply an custom locale, install a custom

http://download.java.net/jdk7/docs/api/java/util/spi/LocaleServiceProvider.html

.

 

[Stefan Ram]

Supersedes: <[email protected]>

it breaks words like P-2345 into P- and 2345 as two separate line
entities. Is it possible for us to specify that it is a single entity?

Superseding my previous answer:

I am not sure about this.

There seems to be the possibility to install a custom
java.text.spi.BreakIteratorProvider, or a custom
java.util.spi.LocaleServiceProvider.

One of them possibly can be specified to regard »-« to be
an in-word character.

However, I have never done this and I don't know the
details.

 

[Stefan Ram]

There seems to be the possibility to install a custom
java.text.spi.BreakIteratorProvider, or a custom
java.util.spi.LocaleServiceProvider.

See also:

http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/i18n/locale/services.html