[sword-devel] Sword SVN

[Troy A. Griffitts]

Paul,
	I'm not sure what you're asking:
1.7 = 1.5.7?
SVN doesn't have version numbers
apps directory?
_BibleCS_ now asks the engine for UTF-8 (by virtue of using ICUStringMgr)

	I'd like to help, but I need more information.

		-Troy.




Pham, Khoi wrote:
> Troy,
> I just download sword 1.7 source from SVN, but it seems to miss the apps
> subdirectory.  Have you changed the files in the Apps subdirectory to
> use utf8?
> Paul Pham
> -----Original Message-----
> From: sword-devel-bounces at crosswire.org
> [mailto:sword-devel-bounces at crosswire.org] On Behalf Of Troy A.
> Griffitts
> Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2005 5:43 PM
> To: See7a; SWORD Developers' Collaboration Forum
> Subject: Re: [sword-devel] Arabic Translation
> 
> Sameh,
> 	Yeah, sorry.  We've just switched the Windows software over to
> using 
> utf8 locales.  You should copy one from the SVN repository at:
> 
> https://crosswire.org/svn/biblecs/trunk/stage/uilocales.d/
> 
> Notice the Encoding= entry in the locales file.
> 
> You should have this in both your locales.d and uilocales.d file and its
> 
> best to have both available to the windows software for your language, 
> even if you've not changed anything.
> 
> Hope this helps, and you should grab the latest beta software at:
> 
> https://crosswire.org/sword/ALPHAcckswwlkrfre22034820285912/sword-1.5.8p
> re3.zip
> 
> 
> 	-Troy.
> 
> 
> 
> See7a wrote:
> 
>>Let's take it one file a time. I started working on the file in
>>locales.d for now. I copied the french file, renamed it to ar-utf.conf
>>and changed the descriptioninthe file header to "Arabic (EG)". The new
>>entry appeared in the languages list the next time I opened SWORD.
>>
>>Then I wanted to actually start translating to Arabic, so I saved the
>>file as utf8. I simply used notepad to do that. As soon as I did that,
>>the entry dissapeared from the languages menu. Did I miss any step in
>>the peocedure? I also noticed that all locale files provided under
>>locales.d are ANSI and not one of them is utf8. Is there any sample of
>>a UTF8 locale file?
>>
>>Can any one help me with this?
>>
>>Regards,
>>Sameh
>>
>>On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 00:20:31 +0000, Daniel Glassey
>><danglassey at ntlworld.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>See7a wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Hi everyone,
>>>>
>>>>I would like to thank you all for your effort to make God's word
>>>>availabl. I pray to God to bless you and your work to be always
>>>>fruitfull.
>>>>
>>>>I was thinking about starting to translate The SWORD Project for
>>>>Windows to Arabic. I have good experience in software development and
>>>>Arabic is my mother tongue. I just wanted to know first how much work
>>>>is involved in this and also how is the translation going to happen?
>>>>do you have separate dictionary files for your software text labels
> 
> or
> 
>>>>is it embedded in the source code?
>>>
>>>That would be wonderful. :)
>>>
>>>There are 2 files used for translation.
>>>There is a file of bible booknames used by all SWORD programs:
>>>
>>>It is partially explained in
>>>http://www.crosswire.org/ucgi-bin/twiki/view/Swordapi/LocaleFileLayout
>>>
>>>I haven't got a working windows here but I think they are in the
>>>locales.d directory or something.
>>>
>>>e.g. fi-utf8.conf
>>>
>>>copy it to ar-utf8.conf
>>>
>>>The file should be stored in UTF8 (a form of Unicode) text format.
>>>Wordpad or possibly notepad should be able to do this.
>>>
>>>Don't worry about the complicated 'abbreviations' part for the moment.
>>>The most important part is to translate the book names.
>>>
>>>Secondly, the thing that should be translated particularly for the
> 
> SWORD
> 
>>>Project for windows is the conf file in uilocales.d in the directory
>>>that the program was installed to.
>>>
>>>Take fi.conf as an example
>>>The translation is stored in the form
>>>English=Translation
>>>
>>>If you need any more help just ask on the list.
>>>
>>>God bless.
>>>
>>>Daniel
>>>
>>
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