[sword-devel] Hyphens in book names

[Ben Morgan]

 On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 7:17 AM, Greg Hellings <greg.hellings at gmail.com>wrote:
>
> Perhaps allowing each locale to define its own numerals and hyphen-like
> character would be a good solution?
>
This is exactly what BPBible allows. Numerals are defined in the text
section with the identifier 0123456789

e.g. for hindi/nepali
0123456789=०१२३४५६७८९

It also allow hyphens in book names using a workaround.
For example, in vietnamese there will be these two lines for 2 peter (the
first being standard SWORD line, the second mapping from that to a
with-hyphens version).
II Peter=II Phierơ
II Phierơ=II Phi-e-rơ

It's not the neatest solution but it does work.

God Bless,
Ben
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>  On Sep 29, 2010 4:08 PM, "Daniel Owens" <dhowens at pmbx.net> wrote:
> >
> > On 09/29/2010 03:55 PM, Robert Hunt wrote:
> >> New Zealand.
> >>
> >> Hello all,
> >>
> >> I am spending today studying the documentation on the Crosswire
> >> Sword wiki so I'm likely to have a few questions. Please let me know
> >> if this is not the right forum to ask questions.
> >>
> >> I see in http://www.crosswire.org/wiki/DevTools:SWORD that
> >> localised book names are not allowed hyphens in them (because the
> >> hyphen is used for verse ranges). In the Philippine language that we
> >> worked with as Bible translators, the hyphen is a letter in the
> >> alphabet and appears in several book names!
> >>
> >> Is this still a current limitation? If so, what is the suggested
> >> work-around.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Robert.
> >>
> > This problem came up with Vietnamese, and I was just told to drop the
> > hyphens. The result was not ideal, but in the end it is still
> > comprehensible in Vietnamese. I think the hyphen was needed because
> > Vietnamese is monosyllabic, but more recent "transliterations" of
> > foreign names have simply dropped the hyphens. Would the names still be
> > comprehensible without the hyphen?
> >
> > Daniel
> >
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