[mobile-devel] applying and BUG reports

[Martin Denham]

Hi Michael,

The files look good to me (but I can't read Hebrew).  I was sent a
tool<http://www.ep3project.info/downloads/ConvertCodes.zip>that maps
UTF-8 to properties files and that seems to have done a good job
on BibleNames.

I am wondering if there will be rtl bidi issues with Hebrew and already I
can see that the combination of Hebrew book names with chapter and verse
causes the numbers to be reversed in the page title.  If that is the only
problem then I will manually reverse the numbers.  I plan to do a build
later today and let you take a look.  Then, we can see what needs fixing or
removing.

I think I will need to disable Hebrew support for Android versions before
2.2 because that is when Hebrew fonts were introduced.  Do you have Android
2.2 on your mobile?  Do you know if there were any special Android versions
for Israeli users containing Hebrew fonts before android 2.2?

Best wishes
Martin

2011/1/22 מיכאל בר-דוד <michael at mail.org.il>

>  Hello
>
>
>  The 3 files attached. For the JSword file, I didn't get the encoding
> trick, so I wrote the whole file in UTF-8, and you might be able to convert
> it.
>
> For the and-bible translation: what is strong?
>
>
>  Regards
>
>
>    --
> מיכאל בר-דוד Michael Bar-David michael at mail.org.il
>
>
>  On 01/15/2011 04:41 PM, Martin Denham wrote:
>
> Hi Michael,
>
>  I hope you don't feel I am bombarding you but I suddenly realised you may
> be able to help with a need for abbreviated bible book names in the Hebrew
> language.  JSword provides, among many other things, book names in local
> languages and And Bible makes a greater use of abbreviated book names in the
> next release.  Unfortunately some languages do not have the abbreviated book
> names available in JSword and Hebrew is one of the languages without
> abbreviations.
>
>  If you have time it would help a lot if you could fill in the *.Short
> lines in this Hebrew properties<https://crosswire.org/svn/jsword/trunk/jsword/src/main/resources/org/crosswire/jsword/versification/BibleNames_he.properties>file.  You can see an English version for comparison
> here<https://crosswire.org/svn/jsword/trunk/jsword/src/main/resources/org/crosswire/jsword/versification/BibleNames.properties>.
>  I don't know if you are familiar with the escape codes used in Java
> properties files.  If not you can ask or I did start putting together a ui
> translation wiki page<http://code.google.com/p/and-bible/wiki/UserInterfaceTranslation> and
> you will see a reference to this JSword properties file at the end.  Ideally
> abbreviated names will be between 3 and 5 characters long with no spaces or
> full stops.
>
>  Best regards
> Martin
>
> 2011/1/15 מיכאל בר-דוד <michael at mail.org.il>
>
>>  Hello List
>>
>> My name is Michael and I'm a software developer from Israel. I wrote a
>> basic version of android bible app in the past (as well as other bible
>> software: PHP, JS, python, maemo version, etc.), but that was before I
>> discovered And Bible. I started to use it 3 weeks ago, and it's very nice,
>> and so I use it as primary bible app.
>>
>> I would like to participate the dev team, if that's fine with you. I'm not
>> experienced with android development too much, but I know a little, and I
>> have some knowledge about UI design. I also can help in Hebrew translation
>> and other Hebrew-related issues. I have Motorola Milestone (AKA Droid in the
>> states) with 2.1, and a chinese device called SmartQ V5 which has android
>> 2.1.
>> I also have a web server, so I can offer forums, bug-reports system or
>> other web systems that might be useful for the project.
>>
>> BUG report:
>> A serious bug that started from v 0.14 and still on 0.15, is about hebrew
>> text direction. As you probably know, Hebrew is written from right to left,
>> AKA RTL, and also right aligned as default. Versions before 0.14 were in RTL
>> direction and right aligned, but from 0.14 the text is left aligned (I can't
>> determinate if it's RTL or LTR). My guess is that the text size change that
>> was added, is responsible for that, in some way. BTW, have you considered
>> using pinch-to-zoom? I used it in my app, and it's was very comfortable.
>>
>>   I want to strengthen your hands with that important work.
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>  --
>>  מיכאל בר-דוד Michael Bar-David michael at mail.org.il
>>
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