[sword-devel] Encoding question regarding modules

[Daniel Owens]

Thanks for the quick response. I think the purpose of the content is to 
help new module developers get acquainted with how to do that, so I will 
eliminate a potential source of confusion and simplify it to just UTF-8.

Daniel

Chris Little wrote:
> We only want to publish UTF-8 content, and I would probably tag even 
> ASCII content as UTF-8 for the simplification of processing since many 
> frontends would perform an unnecessary cp1252 to UTF-8 conversion.
> 
> If the second paragraph (in context) says that we would accept 
> submissions in cp1252, that should probably be changed. If it's just 
> expressing an ability to handle cp1252 data for legacy content, it could 
> be left alone.
> 
> --Chris
> 
> 
> Daniel Owens wrote:
>> I am working on the wiki page for the module creation process, and I 
>> seem to have stumbled on an internal inconsistency:
>>
>> "Note that the SWORD Project requires all submitted texts to be Unicode 
>> (UTF-8) encoded documents. We recommend that texts be marked up in OSIS 
>> or TEI, but will still accept texts based on CCEL documents that are 
>> marked up in ThML."
>>
>> Later on:
>>
>> "As mentioned above in the conf's Encoding directive, SWORD modules can 
>> be encoded either in Windows Codepage 1252 (cp1252) (a superset of ISO 
>> 8859-1) or in UTF-8. See Encoding for a complete explanation and 
>> definition."
>>
>> For the purpose of clearing it up, does CrossWire only except source 
>> files encoded in UTF-8 or is cp1252 still acceptable?
>>
>> Daniel
>>
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