Luke Emmet luke at marmaladefoo.com
Sat Jun 20 08:57:42 BST 2020
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Hi Sean
Thanks for the new tests - I think they are all reasonable, even the last one.
I just ran them on GemiNaut and I believe it is doing the right thing for all of them, which is to wrap at the word, hyphen or soft-hypen. But I shouldn't claim much credit, I'm just using a system control to display the text content, which does the hard work of rendering the unicode into the display.
For tests 43, 46 and 49, it is unclear in the test what you expect should happen. Do you just want the client to confirm it doesn't barf on the content, but can display it somehow? For these I don't agree that the client should try to split the content as doing so is a non-trivial problem and for a real language is very language specific (where are the syllable boundaries perhaps). So the correct thing to do is to simply lay them out in a non-wrapped line. Or if your client takes a hard line it could arbitrarily break the content up (perhaps on mobile).
I think the main thing is that the character content is displayed and the client can continue. I think the preference should be for an unwrapped line with a scrolling mechanism.
A suggestion for a possible improvement - it would be helpful if there was a "back to tests index" link on each page, that way you can choose a few tests from the index, then go back to the index when you are done - otherwise you might have to go back N times, which is not quite as nice.
Best Wishes
- Luke
On 20-Jun-2020 02:28, Sean Conner wrote:
I just added 10 new tests to the Gemini Client Torture Test, tests 41
through 50. They all test section 5.4.1 of the Gemini Specification (text
lines). Each page contains a line that exceeds 8,500 bytes (yes, bytes, not
characters, although some of then exceed 8,500 characters, depends upon the
characters used). A few mild spoilers:
Some have the spaces replaced with dashes.
Some have no spaces, dashes or any puntuation to speak of.
Some have Unicode combining characters.
I do apologize for the snark in test 50, but it represents one of the many
aspects that I dislike about Unicode in general.
I expect these tests to be among the hardest to deal with for a client.
You have been warned. If anyone thinks these tests are unfair, well, here's
the thread to discuss it.
-spc