[bt-devel] Bible Time Development - Search Dialog

[Gary Holmlund]

Eeli Kaikkonen wrote:
> Martin Gruner wrote:
>   
>> Hi Gary,
>>
>> I second Eeli's mail.
>>
>> Doing translations with tr() is a manual process, and we would have to do it 
>> for all languages of modules that are and will be available for sword. This is 
>> not possible as new modules of minority languages are being integrated into 
>> the different repositories.
>>
>> I vote for the automatic solution: The languages that you can configure in BT 
>> are already determined by the installed modules. So for each language there is 
>> at least one module available. Therefore you only have to find one module in 
>> the language to be configured (preferrably a bible, but not neccessarily) and 
>> retrieve the text of the first entry. This is simple and automatic.
>>
>>   
>>     
>
> What if the first entry is introduction written in English though the 
> module is for some ancient language? I don't know if there are any such 
> modules but we should think about some possible situations because, as 
> you said, there will be more and more modules.
>
> I guess the most bullet-proof solution would be to have characters from 
> the unicode range determined by the module language AND some 
> verses/entry from a module. At least one of them should give a close 
> match. For Bibles I would take couple of verses from e.g. Gen1 and John1 
> and if they all are empty, then something else.
>
> But Gary doesn't have to make any decisions about this. The font chooser 
> won't be any worse than the current one even if the text is left as it 
> is now. So, Gary, relax :) Just make sure that the text can be easily 
> changed dynamically later if you don't want to implement something more 
> complex.
>
> --Eeli
>
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Humm. I see this topic was good for generating discussion.

For now I will focus on just the Qt4 conversion and perhaps
use a Bible verse instead of "the quick brown fox".

If I continue on to the second phase of getting text from the
modules, I may need some pointers on how to do that.

Gary