[sword-devel] language/locale codes

DM Smith dmsmith at crosswire.org
Wed Nov 11 05:35:28 MST 2009


On 11/11/2009 07:21 AM, Karl Kleinpaste wrote:
> DM Smith<dmsmith at crosswire.org>  writes:
>    
>> Bokmål is sometimes Bokmaal and even Bokmal
>>      
> A-ring apparently tickles a bug in GTK UTF8 handling.  We attempted to
> get all the more-or-less common native names into Xiphos' languages
> file, but Bokmål causes glitches in g_utf8_validate().  So we include it
> as Bokmaal.
>    

There are various possible encodings in UTF-8 for a glyph. I wonder if 
GTK has problems with the NFC or the NFD form.
In the composed form it is a single unicode code point, but the 
decomposed form is two code points. The first for the letter A and the 
second for the combining ring.


-- DM



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