[sword-devel] Greek dictionary - input needed

[Manfred Bergmann]

Am 21.01.2009 um 05:29 schrieb Chris Little:

>> ICU is not a requirement for using UTF-8 modules; rather than use  
>> ICU, most frontends (certainly BPBible, GnomeSword, BibleTime and I  
>> think MacSword as well) have defined their own string manager code  
>> (generally using the platform - qt, glib or python).
>
> DM is really correct that we're coming to the point where ICU is  
> going to be a necessity for app i18n/l10n. ICU provides up-to-date  
> collation and normalization facilities that are a necessity for  
> correctly managing Unicode data in anything other than a braindead  
> manner (like our byte-ordered LD entries currently are). Searching,  
> including functions like accent normalization and correct case  
> folding, aren't possible without certain level of Unicode knowledge  
> within the app. And when we actually think about doing lookup via  
> transliteration (something every other piece of professional Bible  
> software handles) we can either go to the effort of rolling our own  
> transliteration facility or use the ready-made one provided in ICU  
> (as Logos does).
>
> MacSword may be exempt from needing ICU for a while, as would any  
> other MacOS or iPhone program, for the simple fact that many of ICUs  
> functionality should be available through platform APIs. That's  
> because Apple has included ICU on both of these platforms, though it  
> won't ever be the most recent release and may lack some data.

Additionally although they include the library, they don't prodide the  
headers. So you couldn't use it to compile something.


Manfred