Let characters other than space break lines

[kyfex-uwu]

Increasing access

This would increase support for languages that use different spaces, and it would give greater control over text as a whole.

Most appropriate sub-area of p5.js?

• [ ] Accessibility
• [ ] Color
• [ ] Core/Environment/Rendering
• [ ] Data
• [ ] DOM
• [ ] Events
• [ ] Image
• [ ] IO
• [ ] Math
• [X] Typography
• [ ] Utilities
• [ ] WebGL
• [ ] Build process
• [ ] Unit testing
• [ ] Internationalization
• [ ] Friendly errors
• [ ] Other (specify if possible)

Feature request details

Currently, when rendering text with a width parameter the given text is only broken on space characters. If a user wants to insert characters like a zero width joiner in order to allow text wrapping in a specific spot, p5 just ignores it and will not split the text.

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[orrkislev]

I'm not sure I understand the use case here:

text('some text \n this is a new line', 50,50)

would work with or without setting the width

or is it something for specific languages? Thai? (I'm sorry for my ignorance)

[dhowe]

in v2.0 users can pass the character to split on