[sword-devel] module making problem - U_INVALID_CHAR_FOUND

[Chris Little]

I still haven't figured out what is causing your problems.

Troy suggests that the U_INVALID_CHAR_FOUND errors are coming when text 
(specifically the entry NAME) is transformed to UTF-8 for comparison 
purposes.

That doesn't explain why you can't export all of the text. That doesn't 
explain why we're seeing different results when we run the program. That 
doesn't explain why you're getting this error when you compile this 
module but I'm not. Etc.

The "drivers" to which I referred are part of Sword. And indeed, there a 
possibility that changes in Sword reflect the differences in behavior. 
I'll see about posting a new version of the utilities based on 1.5.8 RC2.

--Chris

Don A. Elbourne Jr. wrote:
> I tried
> 
> imp2ld philpot.imp
> imp2ld philpot.imp 4
> imp2ld philpot.imp 2
> imp2ld philpot.imp Philpot
> imp2ld philpot.imp Philpot 4
> imp2ld philpot.imp Philpot 2
> 
> I get dozens of: from: U_INVALID_CHAR_FOUND  every time
> 
> I tried removing all the "-" all together and still get the error.
> 
> If you are not getting the errors with the same file, then I must have 
> something going wrong on my system. Where are these drivers? Maybe I 
> have some old ones or something.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Chris Little wrote:
> 
>> Could you post the commends you issued (both to imp2ld and to mod2imp) 
>> and the .conf file you created for the module?
>>
>> I tried it myself and it worked fine roundtrip with the rawLD4 driver. 
>> The zLD driver looks like it has a bug since it quit exporting at 12.25.
>>
>> I have a couple of other recommendations for the markup though:
>> Convert the sequence "--" to an actual emdash character, when it 
>> appears. The encoding is inconsistent in this matter, since some 
>> emdashes do appear in the text.
>> Pick any markup format other than plaintext. imp2ld doesn't seem to be 
>> respecting linebreaks, and the frontends wouldn't necessarily do so 
>> either. If you want to guarantee a linebreak toss some <p>'s in there 
>> and change the .conf accordingly. This will also permit markup of 
>> scripture references.
>>
>> --Chris
>>
>> Don A. Elbourne Jr. wrote:
>>
>>> Running mod2imp results in a mangled imp file. A few of the lines 
>>> start with a $$$ and no date, other lines start with a date, and no 
>>> $$$, and some of the dates are out of order. The file only goes 
>>> through Jan. 6. I do not see any ryme or reason to the placement.
>>>
>>>
>>> Chris Little wrote:
>>>
>>>> This is an error coming from ICU (not Sword) and I don't believe it 
>>>> is any problem. If you have a question about whether your data is 
>>>> being preserved correctly, you can do imp2mod on your input file 
>>>> followed by mod2imp on the resulting module. Then diff the two imp 
>>>> files and see if there's any difference.
>>>>
>>>> --Chris
>>>>
>>>> Don A. Elbourne Jr. wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I am creating a new Daily Devo module out of Joseph Philpot's 
>>>>> "Daily Portions." I have created an imp file and I'm using the 
>>>>> latest imp2ld tool on WinXP.
>>>>>
>>>>> I get output like this:
>>>>>
>>>>> 12.30
>>>>> from: U_INVALID_CHAR_FOUND
>>>>> from: U_INVALID_CHAR_FOUND
>>>>> from: U_INVALID_CHAR_FOUND
>>>>> from: U_INVALID_CHAR_FOUND
>>>>> from: U_INVALID_CHAR_FOUND
>>>>> 12.31
>>>>> from: U_INVALID_CHAR_FOUND
>>>>> from: U_INVALID_CHAR_FOUND
>>>>> from: U_INVALID_CHAR_FOUND
>>>>> from: U_INVALID_CHAR_FOUND
>>>>> from: U_INVALID_CHAR_FOUND
>>>>>
>>>>> You can see my imp file here:
>>>>> http://elbourne.org/temp/philpot.imp (640 KB)
>>>>>
>>>>> What character could be flagging the errors and what should I do to 
>>>>> correct it?
>>>>>
>>>>
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