[sword-devel] layout.conf and utf-8

[Adrian Korten]

Good day,

The dictionary/lexicon window has a similar problem although it never 
caused exception errors. It does not remember the last word looked up if 
it uses higher UTF-8 characters.

ak


Troy A. Griffitts wrote:
> Adrian,
>     Thanks for the detailed bug report.  It's probably a simple fix and 
> a blockheaded error on my part.  I would bet I'm not even trying to do a 
> utf8towide conversion on read of the .conf file but I am doing the 
> conversion on save (or vice versa)  I'll try to get a fixed version for 
> you quickly.
> 
>     -Troy.
> 
> 
> 
> Adrian Korten wrote:
> 
>> Good day,
>>
>> We have run into a new and somewhat irregular error with Thai texts. On
>> exiting the program, the following window would appear. "Sword caused an
>> invalid page fault in module <unknown> at 0000:08cb8e0". Once this
>> message occured, it would keep occuring with each exit of the program.
>> This happened with both the v1.5.4 and v1.5.6 programs. At first, I
>> thought it had something to do with the Thai text modules (zipped and
>> encrypted). It was erratic and would show up after an install on some
>> machines but not others. Uninstalling and re-installing the programs
>> would fix the problem.
>>
>> I finally had the problem on a local machine and the time to dig into it
>> more. Neither uninstalling the Thai modules, turning off all switches
>> (Strongs, headings, hebrew, etc.) nor turning off 'Autosave layout' and
>> 'Autosave Personal bookmarks' helped. But I began to notice it was not
>> saving layout changes that had been previously made. Examining the
>> layout.conf file, it had a some lines that looked like Thai characters
>> as untranslated utf-8 characters. After deleting these lines, the
>> problem disappears and there is no error on exit.
>>
>> Looking at this problem a bit more when the user does a search and looks
>> up a previous search, the Thai searches are all unreadable. Rather the
>> searches from the current session are displayed okay but searches from
>> previous program sessions are unreadable. I assume the previous searches
>>   are being read from the layout.conf file. The layout.conf file is a
>> non-UTF-8 format and cannot handle non-roman characters properly.
>>
>> It also seems like the lookup and search texts that are saved for Thai
>> are quite long. They seem to be longer than what would have been entered
>> and then saved as ascii (3x characters). After doing a before program 
>> use and after, these strings are being repeated with each running of 
>> the program. The first shutdown messes up the utf-8 characters and 
>> afterwards it string is duplicated each time.
>>
>> I'm thinking of setting the 'LookupSaveCount' and 'SearchSaveCount' to
>> zero. Or does anyone have a better suggestion?
>>
>> Adrian
>>
>>
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