[sword-devel] lack of apocrypha localization

David Haslam dfhmch at googlemail.com
Mon Oct 16 08:03:46 MST 2017


In reply to refdoc,

>I would think that the immediate solution is to have a second locale
>which is not distributed but solely for module making. For modules with
>this "abnormality". Once the correct OSISrefs are created there is no
>problem anymore with the module as such.
>
>The remaining problem would solely be with people putting in references
>in, expecting different results (unlikely as modern French use seems to
>be what Cyrille suggests).
>>
>> And returning to the main concern, the Perl script 'xreffix.pl'
>> described in
>> https://crosswire.org/wiki/Converting_SFM_Bibles_to_OSIS#Cross-refere
>> nces
>> would not be able to rightly determine that a reference to '1 Rois
>> 13:12'
>> should be converted to osisRef="1Sam.13.12".
>
>With the temporarily amended locale this would be no problem. As the
>locale is only used once, this is an easy fix.

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That's a sensible workaround, and I think we'd do well to write it up as a
footnote in the wiki page.

Best regards,

David



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