[sword-devel] Using the -N option in osis2mod ?

[DM Smith]

Reading that bug report, which is quite old and still actively open, I found the following that might be of some interest:
http://www.sbl-site.org/Fonts/SBLHebrewUserManual1.5x.pdf

On Jun 25, 2014, at 11:35 AM, David Troidl <DavidTroidl at aol.com> wrote:

> In developing the MapM, we came across the normalization problem. There is a Wikimedia bug, or perhaps a bug in the Unicode normalization algorithm, described here:
> https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2399
> This causes the Hebrew text of the original MapM on Wikimedia to have its characters reordered from the standard Hebrew ordering.  In the OSIS text of the MapM, I fixed the ordering using regular expressions.  So the text conforms to Hebrew: consonant-shin/sin dot-dagesh, etc.
> 
> David
> 
> On 6/25/2014 8:53 AM, David Haslam wrote:
>> My observations arise in connection with Hebrew Unicode text.
>> 
>> I do know why NFC is default, and why it's recommended.
>> 
>> The Hebrew MapM module is not NFC normalized, so there must have been a
>> genuine reason why the -N option was used during its build. Another Hebrew
>> module (from IBT) is also not normalized.
>> 
>> Likewise, an earlier version of the Hebrew WLC module was rebuilt without
>> NFC, albeit the current release is normalized. Refer to the file wlc.conf
>> for the history.
>> 
>> This suggests that the -N option can be made to work, but perhaps it has
>> only ever been tested under Linux?  As a Windows user, I am curious as to
>> why I could not get it to work at all.
>> 
>> Though I can't go into any details, my OSIS XML source text is already
>> UTF-8, and is valid to the OSIS schema.
>> 
>> I am still curious as to why there was a historic reversion of normalization
>> for the WLC module.
>> cf. I asked Chris, but he never responded, though I guess he's too busy this
>> year.
>> 
>> Best regards,
>> 
>> David
>> 
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