[sword-devel] UTF-8

[Chris Little]

> Chris wrote me about UTF-8 encoding to put new modules in. 
> Where can I find more info about this?

The best page for info about UTF-8 & Unicode is at
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html.

You'll have to decide for yourself the best way of converting a text
from a regional encoding to UTF-8 is.  There are mappings from various
regional encodings to Unicode at http://www.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS.

But, as I mentioned, if you're just looking to print latin characters
with diareses (umlauted characters), that's handled in Latin-1 which is
also supported by Sword.  I suspect that there is some other problem.

> Does UTF-8 make it possible to drag and drop references from 
> the commentaries?

It's just a character encoding, like ASCII, so it can't help with that.

BTW, you can find information about all of the tags in our .conf files
in the module creation overview at
http://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=4545&group_id=9516.

--Chris