[sword-devel] Devanagari text displays different in SWORD than in the source IMP file

[Peter von Kaehne]

Hi Tim,

Rendering of complex scripts is a matter of some concern for all our
frontends -  some do worse, some do better and some do really quite fine.

I think Xiphos and BibleDesktop might be the best bets for all things
related to complex fonts on Windows. BibleTime - I have not tried ever
on Windows, so I can not comment, but it uses a sound rendering machine
and might be ok too.

My suggestion to you is to choose one of our frontends which does the
job well and concentrate on that - re translation of interface etc and
just hope that improvements in the rendering engines improve the
situation for other applications eventually too.

Peter

Tim Chase wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi
> 
>  
> 
> I’m creating a bible module using the .sfm paratext files from the Nepal
> Bible Society.  Just as info I’m using the SFMToOSIS.py for conversion
> to OSIS and then using OSIS2MOD to create my module files.   When
> showing the example SWORD module to the Bible Society they noticed that
> the devanagari half characters were not showing correctly. 
> 
> I have done some testing and have found that the text is fine going from
> the sfm to osis and also into a raw module.  When the text is displayed
> in the bible text panel of the windows SWORD program the text is
> displayed incorrectly.  In SWORD I have set the font for the module to
> Arial Unicode MS, and all input files are UTF-8.
> 
> Attached is a small sample imp formatted file which can be used to make
> a rawtext module using imp2vs.  Also attached are images of what the
> text should look like and the incorrectly displayed text from SWORD.
> 
>  
> 
> I looked at the text in the raw module with three different editors with
> the following results using UTF-8 format:
> 
>  
> 
> Jedit = incorrectly displayed
> 
> Notepad = correctly displayed
> 
> Notepad++ = correctly displayed  
> 
>  
> 
> So the problem appears to be in how the SWORD for windows program
> handles devanagari Unicode script.
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>  
> 
> Hopefully I’ve made it simple enough to be able to troubleshoot this
> with devanagari text J
> 
>  
> 
> Thanks for the help
> 
>  
> 
> Tim Chase
> 
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