[sword-devel] locales

[Ben Morgan]

On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 2:38 PM, Chris Little <chrislit at crosswire.org>wrote:

> 3) There are xx_abbr or xx_abbrev locales for German, French, Estonian, and
> Korean and an abbr locale for English. Does anyone actually use any of these
> as their locale? Or are they used in some other way by any front end?
>
BPBible uses the abbreviations locales for abbreviations (though not
necessarily as they stand in sword SVN trunk - we have our own copy of them,
I think)


> This might have to wait a while, since I foresee it requiring an API
> change, but I would like to fold these into their language's primary locale
> files. (I.e., where we currently have sections called [Meta], [Text], and
> [Book Abbrevs], we would add an [Abbr] section.) Then we can add methods to
> retrieve abbreviations instead of full book names. This allows us to reduce
> the redundant [Book Abbrevs] sections and avoids the current situation where
> locale selection drop-downs include a bunch of languages plus a bunch of
> localized abbreviations.
>
That sounds a good idea.

God Bless,
Ben
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