[sword-devel] Non-Roman characters in Personal Commentary

[Adrian Korten]

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Good day,

We are trying to make entries to the Persoal Commentary in non-Roman
characters on Windows XP (probably 2000 and 98 Engl). We are trying this
in Thai but I assume that similar problems may exist for other character
sets (especially with grouping behaviour). I would like to know what is
the default font used; is it the same as the default set for display of
Bibles? And how is the rendering done because it seems to be different
from the rtf control(?) for other modules. Using Windows 98 Thai, the
rendering is done okay.

Our problem is with Thai characters that stack on top or below a
consonant. It seems to place vowels which are usually immediately
above/below the consonant in the correct position but then adds an extra
space following. Tone markers are displayed above the vowels and are
displayed to the side and with a space following. Interestingly, when a
user first enters the characters in the edit window;, the characters are
displayed and rendered correctly. However they are not displayed
correctly in the display window or when you return to the edit window.

A second problem occurs with the font sizes. On initial entry a font
size is used that seems to match the specified default. If additional
editing changes are made, the font size often becomes larger for all new
characters.

Regular Thai fonts don't work for display purposes since they are
unicode based (entry is possible and displays properly initially). I
have a hacked Thai font that fits into the ANSI character range. It
displays in Notepad properly but as described above in CrossWire Sword.
This gives people the ability to enter Thai characters into Sword but
they are not displayed nicely.

Does anyone have any suggestions? I have tried making changes in the 
personal.conf as well as the users.conf files. Both give similar results.

Sorry to bring up another font issue with a complex language.

Adrian



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