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

[Adrian Korten]

Good day,

Another related question. Does anyone include Greek or Hebrew words in 
their personal commentary? If so, did you do anything special to make 
that happen?

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Adrian Korten wrote:
> 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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