mail word wrapping breaks urls and other words

[Paul Sladen]

Malone, the bug-tracking component of Launchpad keeps subscribers informed about the status of a bug by emailing them updates.

If a URL appears in this email that is longer than $length character (seen with 75) then the URL is word-wrapped, making it inconvient and hard to click on the link, eg:

  http://www.paul.sladen.org/ubuntu/bugs/acpi-
support_0.50-0ubuntu1.debdiff

The word-wrapping algorithm should make an exception for "long words" where the word starts with "(f|ht)tps?:"

[Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)]

Related to bug 2804.

[Björn Tillenius (bjornt)]

On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 01:08:31AM -0000, Paul Sladen wrote:
> If a URL appears in this email that is longer than $length character
> (seen with 75) then the URL is word-wrapped, making it inconvient and
> hard to click on the link, eg:
>
> http://www.paul.sladen.org/ubuntu/bugs/acpi-
> support_0.50-0ubuntu1.debdiff
>
> The word-wrapping algorithm should make an exception for "long words"
> where the word starts with "(f|ht)tps?:"

Yes, it should. Long words are usually not wrapped, but they seem to be
wrapped if they contain a '-'. I'll take a look at how to fix it.

    status confirmed
    assignee bjornt

[Marius Gedminas (mgedmin)]

If you happen to use the textwrap module from the standard Python library, then this might be of interest to you: textwrap in Python 2.3 wraps URLs that contain hyphens, while textwrap in Python 2.4 doesn't.

[Diogo Matsubara (matsubara)]

This is not a malone specific problem. After discussing with Curtis, he explained to me that all our emails are wrapped using the same wrapping utility hence moving to -foundations.

[Chris Jones (cmsj)]

This also seems to affect team invitation emails

[Jeff Godin (jgodin)]

From bug 2130912 (marked as duplicate): "This appears to just be an option in the textwrap module, as imported in launchpad/lib/lp/services/mail/mailwrapper.py. From the documentation for textwrap, adding "break_on_hyphens=False" would resolve this."