[sword-devel] Locale differences

[DM Smith]

Yes, it throws the header info away. I've started a feeble attempt to have it read/parse it so that it can recommend parts of the conf.

In His Service,
	DM

On Sep 16, 2012, at 3:28 PM, Greg Hellings <greg.hellings at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm pretty sure osis2mod simply discards all content in the header. Such info needs to be specified in the equivalent options in the module's conf file, if such options exist.
> 
> On Sep 16, 2012 2:06 PM, "Andrew Thule" <thulester at gmail.com> wrote:
> On the issue of which language shows up in the client, English or the
> module language, it may be true that different clients have different
> default behaviours, and it''s not clear (to me) of the module can
> influence this - that said, the module's osis has at least two ways
> language is specified:
> 
> <osisText osisIDWork="INK" osisRefWork="defaultReferenceScheme" xml:lang="iu">
>  (which I assume is for xml's sake)
> 
> and in the header:
>                 <work osisWork="INK">
>                         <title>Inuktitut Version</title>
>                         <identifier type="OSIS">Bible.INK</identifier>
>                         <date>2012-06-1</date>
>                         <description>Inuktitut Bible in Eastern Arctic
> Inuktitut</description>
>                         <language type="IETF">iu</language>
>                         <rights>Copyrighted. Not for distribution (yet)</rights>
>                         <refSystem>Bible.KJV</refSystem>
>                 </work>
> 
> As far as I can tell, setting <language type="IETF">iu</language>
> doesn't influence sword clients ... but then again I haven't looked
> how osis2mod deals with the language tag either.  If I gambled (and I
> don't) I'd bet few developers building non-English modules bother to
> declare the modules language by specifying <language></language>.
> 
> All this to say I believe the only obligation the sword client
> developers has to worry about correctly presenting book names in
> foreign language modules is to honour the OSIS intent (according to
> tags), which means the module developers who bother specifying
> <language></language> in osis should rightly expect to influence
> client behaviour with respect to module specific presentations (module
> locales trump client locales for module presentation).  Those that
> don't bother at all, are at the mercy of the default behaviour of the
> client, namely English or client locales specifications.
> 
> ~A
> 
> On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 8:13 AM, Peter von Kaehne <refdoc at gmx.net> wrote:
> > Just CrossWire Main. Attic might have plenty more, but these are irrelevant for the future.
> >
> > And Beta and Av11n hopefully contain none. Chris has said ages ago, he will only accept OSIS bibles. And generally the standard of texts has gone up over the years.
> >
> > Peter
> > -------- Original-Nachricht --------
> >> Datum: Fri, 14 Sep 2012 04:30:35 -0700 (PDT)
> >> Von: David Haslam <dfhmch at googlemail.com>
> >> An: sword-devel at crosswire.org
> >> Betreff: Re: [sword-devel] Locale differences
> >
> >> Peter,
> >>
> >> Did your survey of our modules cover all the repositories?
> >> Or just those in CrossWire Main?
> >>
> >> David
> >>
> >>
> >>
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