Some new tests in the Gemini Client Torture Test

[Luke Emmet]

Hi Sean

Thanks for the new tests - I just ran them on GemiNaut.

I believe my client GemiNaut is doing the right thing for all of them. 
But this is because I'm using a system web browser control to do the 
hard work of the text rendering. Apart from the ones mentioned below 
which I disagree with, it wraps them all as I would expect.

The only quibble I would have with the tests is the ones with no spacers 
at all (43, 46 and 49). I don't agree that the client should try to 
hyphenate the words. 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. I don't think there could be any authority about how 
to wrap an arbitrary sequence of unicode points? If there is such a 
thing please say.

So I think for those tests, you should say that the client should not 
crash, but should display either a) as a wrapped link (wrapped any old 
how for those clients that insist on forcing a wrap, perhaps on mobile 
or b) as a single 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
>