[sword-devel] apostrophes in locales

[DM Smith]

IIRC, the apostrophe and hyphen were added to SWORD as part of book name 
recognition as a result of those threads. I don't know if it was since 
the last release.

I didn't look at the implementation, but I think that when trying to 
recognize a name it will keep going if the next byte matches a prefix in 
a name. If so, it handles even more than that.

But, I think there is a test case for SWORD to test Bible book names. If 
so, it could be really easy to find out. Either way, testing is better 
than speculating. :)

JSword probably can handle an apostrophe but cannot handle a hyphen, 
periods and non-leading numbers. Its recognizer needs to be updated.

In Him,
     DM



On 04/15/2011 02:36 PM, Greg Hellings wrote:
>
> The issue has been discussed at length in other threads in recent 
> time, leading to very vocal and differing opinions. I don't pretend to 
> remember the exact outcome for fear of remembering it incorrectly. But 
> three issue was not cut-and-dry.
>
> --Greg
>
> On Apr 15, 2011 1:29 PM, "David Haslam" <dfhmch at googlemail.com 
> <mailto:dfhmch at googlemail.com>> wrote:
> > They'd better be, in the light of
> >
> > 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostrophe#Miscellaneous_uses_in_other_languages
> > 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostrophe#Miscellaneous_uses_in_other_languages 
>
> >
> > If not, then somone goofed.
> >
> > One example given in this page:
> >
> > # In the new Uzbek Latin alphabet adopted in 2000, the apostrophe 
> serves as
> > a diacritical mark to distinguish different phonemes written with 
> the same
> > letter: it differentiates o' (corresponding to Cyrillic ў) from o, 
> and g'
> > (Cyrillic ғ) from g. This avoids the use of special characters, allowing
> > Uzbek to be typed with ease in ordinary ASCII on any Latin keyboard. In
> > addition, a postvocalic apostrophe in Uzbek represents the glottal stop
> > phoneme derived from Arabic hamzah or ‘ayn, replacing Cyrillic ъ.
> >
> >
> > David
> >
> > --
> > View this message in context: 
> http://sword-dev.350566.n4.nabble.com/apostrophes-in-locales-tp3452523p3452714.html
> > Sent from the SWORD Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
> >
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