[sword-devel] locales.d problem

[Troy A. Griffitts]

Hey guys.  I'd like to get this to work in the Windows environment.  The 
steps to make it work will be to:

	1) Add an encoding entry to the local file
	This is necessary as we still wish to support non ICU builds of the 
sword library.

	2) Make available ONLY the encodings that we support depending on if we 
have code (ICU or otherwise) to support the encoding.

	3) EXPECT input from the client of the API in THIS SPECIFIED encoding 
if this locale is set as the system locale.  All verse 
parsing/alphabetizing/abbrev entries should work appropriately for this 
encoding.

	4) Add frontend support in BibleCS (and other frontends (which should 
be cake on linux systems)).


NOTE: We're not even thinking about this for 1.5.6-- just the final 
optimizations that should be complete soon after my class is over this 
Thursday.

	-Troy.



Pham, Khoi wrote:
> It's better the way you said because I don't expect end users to know
> how to install Windows with codepage for Vietnamese.  I rather have an
> interface that works for all languages without swithching codepage by
> users.
> Paul
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Little [mailto:chrislit@crosswire.org] 
> Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2003 3:15 PM
> To: sword-devel@crosswire.org
> Subject: Re: [sword-devel] locales.d problem
> 
> You need to use the Windows codepage for Vietnamese (Codepage 1258). 
> Maybe if you loudly enough, this will be fixed in the next release and 
> we can support more languages using UTF-8 and we won't depend on people 
> having localized versions of Windows in order to use these locales.
> 
> --Chris
> 
> Pham, Khoi wrote:
> 
>>Yesterday, I tried to write a conf file for the Vietnamese language
> 
> and
> 
>>saved it to UTF-8 format instead of ANSI.  I had the following
> 
> problem:
> 
>>The program doesn't recognize conf file saved in UTF-8 format.  When I
>>saved it in ANSI format, it was recognized, but the Vietnamese
> 
> charaters
> 
>>were not displayed properly on the menu.
>>Can anyone help?
>>Paul
> 
> 
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> sword-devel mailing list
> sword-devel@crosswire.org
> http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel
> 
> -----------------------------------------
> 
> *****************Internet Email Confidentiality Footer****************** 
> 
> Privileged/Confidential Information may be contained in this message.  
> If you are not the addressee indicated in this message (or responsible 
> for delivery of the message to such person), you may not copy or deliver
> this message to anyone. In such case, you should destroy this message
> and notify the sender by reply email. Please advise immediately if you
> or your employer do not consent to Internet email for messages of this
> kind. Opinions, conclusions and other information in this message that
> do not relate to the official business of The Shaw Group Inc. or its
> subsidiaries shall be understood as neither given nor endorsed by it.
> ________________________________________________________________________
> The Shaw Group Inc.
> http://www.shawgrp.com
> 
> _______________________________________________
> sword-devel mailing list
> sword-devel@crosswire.org
> http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel