[sword-devel] SWORD 1.6.x LOCALIZATION - Gaeilge (Irish)

[Ben Morgan]

Looks like it was in latin-1. A utf8 version is attached - this validates
for me

God Bless,
Ben
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Multitudes, multitudes,
   in the valley of decision!
For the day of the LORD is near
   in the valley of decision.

Giôên 3:14 (ESV)



On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 9:20 AM, Troy A. Griffitts <scribe at crosswire.org>wrote:

> Thanks John,
>
> I tried your locale, but it came back with a number of errors.  I presumed
> it was the wrong encoding so I ran it through:
>
> uconv -t UTF-8
>
> but uconv reported illegal characters, which usually means that it guessed
> the wrong source encoding.  So I really am not sure what to do with the
> file.  Anyone else have any ideas what encoding it is in?
>
>        -Troy.
>
>
>
> johnduffy at cgcf.net wrote:
>
>> Troy,
>>
>> I've not got set up with all the utilities etc for Sword yet, but plan to
>> do
>> so shortly.
>>
>> In the meantime, I thought that I would try to provide the Irish
>> localisation texts of the Bible names.  I've put together a conf file
>> (attached) along the lines suggested, but it is untested.  If you have
>> time,
>> can you please check it to see if it is OK, as I can't check it yet? (I
>> expect it to be OK, but then again no-one ever expects bugs!).  I believe
>> that it is UTF8 generated in jEdit, but I don't know how to check this.
>>
>> There are only 73 books in the Irish Bible, but I've put included the
>> English names of the other books in case they just need to be there for
>> the
>> file to work.
>>
>> Let me know if there is anything else I need to change/do for this
>> localisation.
>>
>> Thanks
>>  John Duffy
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> Message: 1
>> Date: Tue, 05 May 2009 13:58:48 -0700
>> From: "Troy A. Griffitts" <scribe at crosswire.org>
>> Subject: [sword-devel] SWORD 1.6.x LOCALIZATION HELP WANTED
>> To: SWORD Developers' Collaboration Forum <sword-devel at crosswire.org>
>> Message-ID: <4A00A888.4080601 at crosswire.org>
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>>
>> Now that we're on the brink of releasing the 1.6.x branch publicly, and
>> we've nailed down the v11n systems to include, we could really use help
>> updating the locale files to include information to take advantage of the
>> new alternate versification (av11n) feature.
>>
>> 1.6.x uses a new locale format which replaces the old system of using book
>> numbers with OSIS book names.
>>
>> Work to convert the existing locales has already taken place and is
>> included
>> in the 1.6.0RC3 package.
>>
>>
>> What is NOT included are translations and abbreviations of the new book
>> names from the new versification systems we are releasing in 1.6.0. This
>> means that these books will appear in English until translations are
>> provided.
>>
>>
>> I've updated the locale template which is included in our source tree at:
>>
>> http://crosswire.org/svn/sword/trunk/doc/translation-template.conf
>>
>> Included is an #Apocr comment which separates the old book names above it,
>> from the new book names below.  Also included is a new updated and expanded
>> commentary on how to tune your locale abbreviations to better parse input
>> from users.
>>
>>
>> The existing locales can be seen in SVN here:
>>
>> http://crosswire.org/svn/sword/trunk/locales.d/
>>
>>
>> Please submit any updated locales, and be sure to try them first with:
>>
>> sword/tests/parsekey jn1.1 <your_locale_abbrev>
>>
>> to be sure the sanity check tests pass.
>>
>> If you get them in to me soon, they might even get bundled in 1.6.0!
>>
>>
>> Thank you for making SWORD usable by so many people groups!
>>
>>
>>        -Troy.
>>
>>
>>
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