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--- Comment #2 from Petr Pisar ppisar@redhat.com 2010-06-06 19:40:06 EDT --- Proper word and line breaking rules are defined by JIS X 4051:2004 http://www.webstore.jsa.or.jp/webstore/Com/FlowControl.jsp?lang=en&bunsyoId=JIS+X+4051%3A2004&dantaiCd=JIS&status=1&pageNo=0. Wikipedia offers loose excerpt of some basic rules http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinsoku_shori. More complex overview provides http://www.jepa.or.jp/press_release/reqEPUBJ.html and http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/NOTE-jlreq-20090604/.
In addition to rules forbidding line break, groff must understand kana or kanji occupies two columns of fixed width terminal usually, whereas latin letters one column only. As man pages usually mix both of them, groff must compute proper width of each symbol precisely to get correct display width of a text.