# phpman > perldoc > Text::WrapI18N

## NAME
    [Text::WrapI18N](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/perldoc/Text%3A%3AWrapI18N/markdown) - Line wrapping module with support for multibyte, fullwidth, and combining
    characters and languages without whitespaces between words

## SYNOPSIS
      use [Text::WrapI18N](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/perldoc/Text%3A%3AWrapI18N/markdown) qw(wrap $columns);
      wrap(firstheader, nextheader, texts);

## DESCRIPTION
    This module intends to be a better [Text::Wrap](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/perldoc/Text%3A%3AWrap/markdown) module. This module is needed to support multibyte
    character encodings such as UTF-8, EUC-JP, EUC-KR, GB2312, and Big5. This module also supports
    characters with irregular widths, such as combining characters (which occupy zero columns on
    terminal, like diacritical marks in UTF-8) and fullwidth characters (which occupy two columns on
    terminal, like most of east Asian characters). Also, minimal handling of languages which doesn't
    use whitespaces between words (like Chinese and Japanese) is supported.

    Like [Text::Wrap](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/perldoc/Text%3A%3AWrap/markdown), hyphenation and "kinsoku" processing are not supported, to keep simplicity.

    *wrap(firstheader, nextheader, texts)* is the main subroutine of [Text::WrapI18N](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/perldoc/Text%3A%3AWrapI18N/markdown) module to
    execute the line wrapping. Input parameters and output data emulate [Text::Wrap](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/perldoc/Text%3A%3AWrap/markdown). The texts have
    to be written in locale encoding.

## SEE ALSO
### locale

## AUTHOR
    Tomohiro KUBOTA, <<kubota@debian.org>>

## COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
    Copyright 2003 by Tomohiro KUBOTA

    This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as
    Perl itself.