[sword-devel] Bug RtoL support in WinSword

[Chris Little]

Which version of Windows are you using? Which version of MSIE do you 
have installed?  Is your version of Windows a localized version?

Right to left language support is bad in Windows 9x. There is no 
reasonable way for us to fix this for these versions of Windows which 
aren't even supported by MS any longer.

Everything works fine in WinXP. I think Win2K is fine too. It sounds 
like there may be a bug in the algorithm that detects whether to reverse 
codepoint order in Win9x, but it was never more than a hack anyway.

--Chris


Peter von Kaehne wrote:
> Hi,
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> I have created (not yet posted to you) a Farsi complete Bible module.
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> In the process I think I have found a bug within Sword for Windows RtoL support.
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> I am running the newest published version (not a development version but 1.5.9)
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> My module is UTF-8 encoded and needs RtoL support. So I added copying from arasvd.conf the relevant directions.
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> As a result my text is mirror imaged in Sword for Windows, while working perfectly in Gnomesword. 
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> I then took the "Direction=RtoL" out of  farsi.conf and had suddenly readable RtoL text, but now the verses where ordered all from left to right.
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> I then looked at the existing Arabic module which specifically mentions in its config file "RtoL Support added" or some such and found that it has the same behaviour in WinSword - while I do not speak Arabic  I am able to discern enough of the vocabulary dt my Farsi knowledge which shares script and some vocabulary
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> Removing the Direction=RtoL  directive suddenly makes that module also readable but again the verses as blocks ordered the wrong way round.
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> This problem does not appear in gnomesword. I do not think it is in Bibletime either. 
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> In Gnomesword it is actually the other way round - if the Direction=RtoL is missing the text is ordered wrongly LtoR on a verse block level, though individual verses are readable RtoL.
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> This is a serious bug for the existing Arabic module and makes my current work on Farsi and some other RtoL modules pretty much unusuable in the Windows version. I am not sure whether other modules are affected. Presumably Hebvrew? I can not comment on MacSword
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