[sword-devel] Dictionary problem in sword cvs

[William Thimbleby]

Cheers, I fixed it by uppercasing the keys I use within Cocoa. Also how 
does this apply to letters like the German ß which I know translates to 
'SS' when I capitalise things? (eßen -> ESSEN)

Thanks --Will

On 18 May 2004, at 11:19, Troy A. Griffitts wrote:

> The dictionary keys are stored in in uppercase if language-applicable. 
> So when you search for Aaron, the lexicon driver algo does a binary 
> search for AARON.  If its toupper fails, then a logical binary search 
> for Aaron would effectively produce Baal, (a > Z) so Aaron would 
> logically be filed after AZUTHUTH, and before BAAL.
>
> We now provide a way for non-ICU builds of sword to supply to toupper 
> function that sword uses.  The Bibletime guys do this with a Qt call. 
> That way, they still get real UTF-8 toupper calls, without the need to 
> include ICU.
>
> We probably broke the non-ICU/non-supplied toupper code.  I'll have a 
> look at it soon. (or Joachim could see why the old logic isn't getting 
> called in this configuration (hint-wink).
>
> Hope this give you some idea of where we're broken,
>
> 	-Troy.
>
>
>
> William Thimbleby wrote:
>> Troy, I'm using the non-ICU version. I could call toupper but I don't 
>> at the moment and I'm not sure what it has to do with the problem.
>> On 17 May 2004, at 08:15, Troy A. Griffitts wrote:
>>> William,
>>>     We've changed some code recently that handles 'toupper' 
>>> functions so that we better support i18n.  I would guess that your 
>>> configuration needs us to do some bugfixing.  What config are you 
>>> using? (ICU/no-ICU).  Does your windowing framework support any kind 
>>> of simple UTF8 toupper string function-- there is an easy way to 
>>> supply a utf8_toupper call if you have one available and don't wish 
>>> to include the entire ICU dependency.
>>>
>>>     -Troy.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> William Thimbleby wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>> I seem to have a problem with the cvs version and selecting 
>>>> contents from dictionaries. A key always seems to jump to the next 
>>>> key that starts with a different initial letter. (eg. Aaron, Attus, 
>>>> Aziel -> Baal (1), Baal(1) -> Cab... in ISBE) this doesn't happen 
>>>> with numbers, such as the strongs dictionaries.
>>>> Is this a bug? or something I have to fix?
>>>> --thanks
>>>> Will
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