[sword-devel] reference parser - yet another bug?

[Troy A. Griffitts]

The SWORD parser matches alphabetically lowest partial entry as priority. So....

If a locale had entries:
JUDE
JUDECATORII
JUDGES

Then 
J -> JUDE
JU -> JUDE
JUD -> JUDE
JUDE -> JUDE
JUDEC -> JUDECATORII

If you want different behavior, then you'll want to add an alphabetically lower entry to override it. For example, if you provided:

JUD=Judges

Then this would result in fixing the first 3 entries.

It sounds like in your case, you just need to override JUDE. I would guess probably a few more because there are many J books and we had to pick our priorities carefully.  I think J goes to John, so you may need to override J as well. Best thing is to do as Greg suggests and add some tests to our testsuite verse parse test for the Romanian locale. We have a bunch for German in there and adding a few Romanian ones wouldn't hurt either.
Hope this is helpful,
Troy


On February 12, 2015 10:08:02 AM MST, Peter Von Kaehne <refdoc at gmx.net> wrote:
>Romanian for "Judges" is "Judecatori". Romanian for "Jude" is Iuda.
>
>So "Ju", "Jud", "Jude", probably even "J" should only ever be
>understood as "Judecatori".
>
>But alas, the parser, uses English abbreviations to override at certain
>and not entirely predictable places. 
>
>So, Jude will be translated into Jude despite being a valid
>abbreviation for Judges in the Romanian locale
>
>If I now add "Jude=Judg" to the locale, I can fix that - but I get the
>same problem at "Jud". Why? Do I need to disable every single
>abbreviation which could be read as something in English? Our locale
>will probably need a massive overhaul if this is desired behaviour.
>
>I personally think once I changed my locale into a non-English one no
>other "default" locale should interfere - or at the very least it
>should function only as a fallback if there is no possible "first
>locale" interpretation. 
>
>Or am I missing something?
>
>Frustratedly
>
>Peter
>
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