[sword-devel] Lucene search index and Coptic ?

[Troy A. Griffitts]

Has anyone checked the encoding entry in the conf file?

On April 27, 2017 6:57:48 AM MST, Greg Hellings <greg.hellings at gmail.com> wrote:
>On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 3:59 AM, David Haslam <dfhmch at googlemail.com>
>wrote:
>
>> Even if Troy's good friends don't use the Lucene index for their work
>on
>> Coptic manuscripts, that's no reason not to pursue this issue in more
>> detail.
>>
>> The *Coptic* block *2C80..2CFF* was added with *Unicode 4.1* which
>was
>> released in March 2005.
>>
>
>The Lucene compatibility we aim for, according to DM earlier in this
>thread, is Lucene 1.9.1. That version was released in March of 2006, so
>it's definitely feasible that it might not support Unicode 4.1. That
>would
>depend on what Lucene's policy is for updating existing release
>branches
>with new Unicode versions and support.
>
>CLucene is notoriously far behind even what Lucene offers (CLucene is,
>essentially, abandonware at this point) supporting only up to something
>like Lucene 2.3 at the latest. But probably lagging behind in things
>like
>individual language and script support.
>
>For an additional data point you might try using BibleDesktop's Lucene
>support. That, at least, uses the upstream Lucene instead of CLucene
>and
>stands a chance of having a newer set of script support.
>
>--Greg
>
>>
>> Are we concluding that the Lucene indexing software built into SWORD
>is so
>> old that it doesn't support Unicode 4.1 ?
>>
>> That's what it's beginning to look like to me.
>>
>> Does it even support the *Tagalog* block *1700..170C, 170E..1714*
>(added
>> with Unicode 3.2 in March 2002) ?
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> David
>>
>>
>>
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