[sword-devel] Encoding of mods.d/ conf files?

[DM Smith]

On Aug 19, 2006, at 9:22 AM, Eeli Kaikkonen wrote:

> Is the encoding of the module .conf files in mods.d/ ISO8859-1? It's
> stated nowhere, at least in the module making guide or in wiki. It  
> seems
> that some modules have have book descriptions in encoding which is
> compatible with 8859-1.


The conf is to be UTF-8 if the conf sets the encoding to UTF-8.
It is to be cp1252 otherwise, which is a superset of ISO8859-1.


>
> This should be standardized. The best thing would be to move to  
> utf8 and
> have two description fields, one for English/ASCII and one for native
> language/utf8. 8859-1 discriminates against users of other encodings.
>
> Another thing which is wrong in .conf files is allowing the use of rtf
> in 'about' section. Sword website and BibleTime both show only raw  
> code
> e.g. in chincvt module's about section. Even that module uses only  
> \par
> tag, the rest could be encoded in utf8. Complex formatting should  
> not be
> necessary in about text. There's no use to allow rtf if frontends  
> don't
> bother implementing it.

It was stated in an earlier thread by Chris Little, that RTF codes  
for characters outside of ASCII should not be used.