[bt-devel] Unicode and SWORD

[Joachim Ansorg]

You wrote on Don, 23 Mär 2000:
>Joachim.  Just got 0.23 running with sword CVS.  The personal commentary
>seems to work ok, with a few exceptions...
>
>To get it to work....
>
>	checkout, compile, install sword from CVS.
>	cp -r locales.d/ from sword dir to /usr/share/sword/
>	download and unzip a few raw modules in /usr/share/sword
>	download personal commentary
>	mkdir .sword
>	cd .sword
>	unzip Personal.zip commentary package here
>	cd mods.d
>	cp ../modules/comments/rawfiles/personal/personal.conf .
>
>then run bibletime.
>
>The reason for this last step is because the download on the website had
>to have its name changed from -+*Personal*+- to just Personal.  The
>symbols where freaking out the web download tool.  The personal.conf
>file in the data directory is still named the old name.  Only the one in
>mods.d/ matters.  You may want to have bibletime check for Personal
>instead of -+*Personal*+-

Yes, a good idea.

>The name used to be funny just so it would inform the user that this was
>a 'special' functioning commentary.  We should use a different mechanism
>for this now.  I think we added a feature to check if a module was
>'writable'.

Already used in 0.3.

>I always forget how cool bibletime is until I bring it up again! :) 
>Just a few questions.
>
>
>How do I make it stop popping up the options dialog upon startup?

The optionsdialog should only popup once (on first startup). Klick on OK and it should't open any more on startup.
If this doesn't work backup and remove .kde/share/config/bibletimerc

>
>> I'm using the new german booknames and noticed that the german umlauts are missing in the key editline.
>> 
>> Is it possible that this is a problem using SWORD's char* with QT's unicode QString classes ?
>
>I tried de locale but I see umlats just fine.  Is there a certain place
>that they are not being displayed properly?  Are you sure that the font
>that you have selected is mapped correctly.  I did not change any of my
>font setting and it seems ok for me.

Uups, I was talking about 0.3!


>You may try running the parsekey test program under the tests directory
>of sword and see if you get umlats there:
>
>[troy@charis tests]$ ./parsekey "Heb 1:19" de
>Hebräer 1:19
>
>
>
>Anyway.  Thanks again!  It looks great!
>
>	-Troy.
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