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    <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0pt; direction: ltr;"><big><big>Hi
          Martin</big></big></p>
    <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0pt; direction: ltr;"><big><big>Please
          DO NOT disable Hebrew support for versions before 2.2. Some
          models were sold in Israel before the 2.2 (from 1.6) and had
          local support for Hebrew installed by Israeli operators. Even
          my Milestone has 2.1. Some other installed private builds like
          cyanogen. All these people have 2.1, 2.0 or 1.6 devices with
          Hebrew fonts (some even Hebrew UI) and should not have any
          problem using Hebrew software.</big></big></p>
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          style="font-size: 21px;">You can definitely add </span><big>a
          disclaimer or warning message, but please don't disable the
          support completely.</big></big></p>
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      </span><span style="font-size: 21px;"></span></p>
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        style="font-size: 21px;">You are invited to send me new builds,
        and I'll be glad to check them and give you feedback.<br>
      </span><span style="font-size: 21px;"></span></p>
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        style="font-size: 21px;">Thanks,</span><br>
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    <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0pt; direction: ltr;">On
      01/22/2011 07:22 PM, Martin Denham wrote:</p>
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      cite="mid:AANLkTimRgqeK4o2izoMZ4Z8MgMJH1ZuLOgUrkEMdHhO6@mail.gmail.com"
      type="cite">Hi Michael,
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      <div style="direction: ltr;">The files look good to me (but I
        can't read Hebrew).  I was sent a <a moz-do-not-send="true"
          href="http://www.ep3project.info/downloads/ConvertCodes.zip">t</a></div>
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      cite="mid:AANLkTimRgqeK4o2izoMZ4Z8MgMJH1ZuLOgUrkEMdHhO6@mail.gmail.com"
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      <div style="direction: ltr;"><a moz-do-not-send="true"
          href="http://www.ep3project.info/downloads/ConvertCodes.zip">ool</a>
        that maps UTF-8 to properties files and that seems to have done
        a good job on BibleNames.</div>
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      <div style="direction: ltr;">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.</div>
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      <div style="direction: ltr;">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?</div>
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      <div style="direction: ltr;">Best wishes</div>
      <div style="direction: ltr;">Martin<br>
        <br>
        <div style="direction: ltr;" class="gmail_quote">2011/1/22 מיכאל
          בר-דוד <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a moz-do-not-send="true"
              href="mailto:michael@mail.org.il">michael@mail.org.il</a>&gt;</span><br>
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              <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0pt; direction:
                ltr;"><big><big>Hello</big></big></p>
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                ltr;"><big><big><br>
                  </big></big></p>
              <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0pt; direction:
                ltr;"><big><big>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.</big></big></p>
              <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0pt; direction:
                ltr;"><big><span style="font-size: 21px;">For the
                    and-bible translation: what is strong?<br>
                  </span></big><big><span style="font-size: 21px;"></span></big></p>
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                  direction: ltr;"><span style="font-size: 21px;">Regards</span><br>
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                <div style="direction: ltr;">-- <br>
                  <h1 style="direction: ltr;">מיכאל בר-דוד</h1>
                  <h1 style="direction: ltr;">Michael Bar-David</h1>
                  <a moz-do-not-send="true"
                    href="mailto:michael@mail.org.il" target="_blank">michael@mail.org.il</a></div>
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                <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0pt;
                  direction: ltr;">On 01/15/2011 04:41 PM, Martin Denham
                  wrote:</p>
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                  <blockquote style="direction: ltr;" type="cite">Hi
                    Michael,
                    <div style="direction: ltr;"><br>
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                    <div style="direction: ltr;">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.</div>
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                    </div>
                    <div style="direction: ltr;">If you have time it
                      would help a lot if you could fill in the *.Short
                      lines in this <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://crosswire.org/svn/jsword/trunk/jsword/src/main/resources/org/crosswire/jsword/versification/BibleNames_he.properties"
                        target="_blank">Hebrew properties</a> file.  You
                      can see an English version for comparison <a
                        moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://crosswire.org/svn/jsword/trunk/jsword/src/main/resources/org/crosswire/jsword/versification/BibleNames.properties"
                        target="_blank">here</a>.  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 <a
                        moz-do-not-send="true"
                        href="http://code.google.com/p/and-bible/wiki/UserInterfaceTranslation"
                        target="_blank">ui translation wiki page</a> 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.</div>
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                    <div style="direction: ltr;">Best regards</div>
                    <div style="direction: ltr;">Martin</div>
                    <div style="direction: ltr;"><br>
                      <div style="direction: ltr;" class="gmail_quote">2011/1/15
                        מיכאל בר-דוד <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a
                            moz-do-not-send="true"
                            href="mailto:michael@mail.org.il"
                            target="_blank">michael@mail.org.il</a>&gt;</span><br>
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                            text="#000000"> <big> Hello List<br>
                              <br>
                              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.</big>
                            <big><br>
                              <br>
                              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.</big> <big><br>
                              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.<br>
                              <br>
                              BUG report:</big> <big><br>
                              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.<br>
                              <br>
                            </big>
                            <div style="direction: ltr;"><big> </big>
                              <div style="direction: ltr;"><big>I want
                                  to strengthen your hands with that
                                  important work.<br>
                                </big></div>
                              <big> </big></div>
                            <big><br>
                              <br>
                              Regards,</big> <br>
                            <font color="#888888"> -- <br>
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                                <h1 style="direction: ltr;">מיכאל בר-דוד</h1>
                                <h1 style="direction: ltr;">Michael
                                  Bar-David</h1>
                                <a moz-do-not-send="true"
                                  href="mailto:michael@mail.org.il"
                                  target="_blank">michael@mail.org.il</a></div>
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    <div style="direction: ltr;" class="moz-signature">-- <br>
      <h1>מיכאל בר-דוד</h1>
      <h1>Michael Bar-David</h1>
      <a href="mailto:michael@mail.org.il">michael@mail.org.il</a></div>
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