[sword-devel] Please vote for Sun to fix a Java bug

[Johan van der Lingen]

notice that you can vote three times on the same bug!

(not to be rude, but are any of these bugs being fixed? I saw some filed on 
2002 and even 1997 and all have status "in progress")

Beautiful Blessings on this day,

Johan


On Thursday 14 December 2006 06:31, DM Smith wrote:
> Troy,
> 	We give the user the ability to select a font for displaying
> modules. We do need to allow per module preferences, including font.
> But that is not the problem here. The problem is that menus, buttons,
> dialogs and so forth all use a "system" font, named Lucida xxx. This
> is a built in font.
>
> 	From what I understand of the problem, Farsi uses an Arabic script
> with a few additions. The fundamental problem is that some glyphs are
> missing and a few others don't connect to their neighbors properly.
> The missing glyphs are akin to having 'I' be missing.
>
> 	I agree that it is not reasonable to expect that every language is
> supported, but Sun is responsive to voting. And the work is not that
> big an undertaking. They just need a bit of prodding.
>
> 	To solve it in the application is messy, but unless Sun fixes the
> font, we might not have a choice.
>
> 	Interestingly, the font is correct on MacOSX.
>
> 	The problem with Hebrew is a bit different. If UTF-8 characters are
> fully composed (letter and points combined into a single UTF-8 char)
> then it is likely that the character is missing. But if the points
> are following the letter, the composition of that character looks
> bad. This is futher compounded by the ascenders and descenders being
> clipped or drawn outside of the line of text. But having worked on
> FlashCards, I know you know all this.
>
> 	Farsi is different because it does not combine characters with
> accents to form a glyph (i.e. no accents) And it is all rendered
> within the text line. And it is different in that it joins adjacent
> letters in specific ways.
>
> Thanks,
> 	DM
>
> On Dec 13, 2006, at 11:37 PM, Troy A. Griffitts wrote:
> > DM, I've found java doesn't render Hebrew well at all either.  I
> > wouldn't expect them to ship a font that renders perfect in all
> > languages.  That alone would be a huge undertaking.  Have you
> > considered
> > giving the user the option to select a font to use with a module?
> >
> > 	-Troy.
> >
> > DM Smith wrote:
> >> If you are not aware, Peter von Kaehne and some members of the
> >> Glasgow Iranian Church are working on translating BibleDesktop into
> >> Farsi (also known as Persian). This is a common language of Iran.
> >>
> >> Several things are coming together:
> >> 1) Bible Desktop is being translated into Farsi.
> >> 2) Farsi Bibles are being turned into Sword Modules. Check the beta
> >> module at:
> >> 	http://www.crosswire.org/sword/modules/ModDisp.jsp?
> >> beta=true&tester=true&modType=Bibles
> >> 3) Bible Desktop can be run from a CD or USB drive without installing
> >> Java on the host computer.
> >>
> >> Together this provides an excellent opportunity to help the Farsi
> >> speaking churches in their evangelistic outreach.
> >>
> >> But there is a problem and you can help. And you don't need to be a
> >> programmer.
> >>
> >> This language uses a right to left script and Java's Lucida font is
> >> incomplete in it's support of Farsi. There is an open bug report for
> >> it. If you register at Sun you can vote that this be fixed. It is
> >> really suprising that the Sun folk won't take the time to fix a few
> >> entries in the font, but they respond to "votes".
> >>
> >> In the top 25 bugs the 25-th bug has 37 votes. Perhaps we can get a
> >> hundred or so.
> >>
> >> Here is the link to the bug report:
> >> http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4646993
> >>
> >> Here is a link to register to vote:
> >> https://softwarereg.sun.com/registration/developer/en_US/new_user
> >>
> >> In His Service,
> >> 	DM Smith
> >>
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