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

[DM Smith]

Found an interesting discussion on the problem:
http://www.mail-archive.com/unicode@unicode.org/msg01891.html

Don't know if it helps at all, as I don't have enough background to  
understand it.

In Him,
	DM

On Sep 7, 2009, at 10:40 AM, David Haslam wrote:

>
> I suppose a follow-up task for CrossWire is to determine which of our
> existing modules (if any) have text that contains codepoint U+200D
> Zero-width joiner.
>
> -- David
>
>
> David Haslam wrote:
>>
>> Hi Tim,
>>
>> By pasting your reply into SC Unipad, I have found the actual  
>> difference.
>>
>> After the Virama, U+094D
>>
>> The correct one has     U+200D Zero-width joiner
>> The Sword one has      U+200C Zero-width non-joiner
>>
>> My guess is that this is a bug deep in the Sword engine.
>>
>> We need Troy's expert eyes to find the root cause.
>>
>> -- David Haslam
>>
>>
>> Tim Chase-13 wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi David
>>>
>>> I have tried several different Unicode fonts and still the display  
>>> of
>>> some words are incorrect.  For instance you might want to try to  
>>> display
>>> the first word of Mark 1:1 of the text that I sent you.  The correct
>>> rendering of this word is परमेश्‍वरका  but  
>>> the way SWORD renders the
>>> text, it looks like परमेश्‌वरका .  which is  
>>> an incorrect rendering of the
>>> 4th character in the word which should be a half character.  You'll
>>> notice the hylanta below that character position. That is a half
>>> character marker but, it should be invisable on this word.  Any  
>>> words
>>> that have half characters have the hylanta showing in SPW.  Try  
>>> BPBible
>>> and the words will render correctly.
>>>
>>> I know the differences are slight but they do make a difference.
>>>
>>> Tim
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
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