[sword-devel] Unicode enabled winsword

Steve Tang sword-devel@crosswire.org
Tue, 28 Jan 2003 13:00:47 -0700 (MST)


> Do you happen to know anyone that uses Chinese windows and if they 
> could try to produce a sword locale (using whatever non-Unicode 
> encoding that is used on Chinese Windows) that will display menus and 
> booknames in Chinese for them?

In the past 2~3 months there were updates to the Chinese locale files. So
someone must be working on them. Sorry I can't speak more intelligently on
'locale' - I have no idea what this word or the locales.d directory are
for.

> Hmmm, on winnt+ you can type in unicode ok, but when it saves it and 
> displays the updated commentary it is back in ascii - yuck. Yep, that 
> definitely need fixed. Hopefully it can be solved at the same time as 
> the 'book name displayed in commentaries in ascii' problem.

It seems like we're a few lines of code away from being able to save in
utf-8 - or so I hope. This will open quite a few doors IMHO. :)

Steve Tang...