[sword-devel] Rendering issues with Finnish Umlauts in FinPR

[Kristof Szabo]

I managed to get Ezra running (it was some libicu70 mess), and yes, the
accented characters in this module are broken (as other modules accented
characters are OK; I assume it is not a font issue). I tried the conf file
change, but it didn't work either.

The mitigation was to rebuild the module, mod2osis leaves some garbage in
the OSIS, but that would be easy to clean, anyway osis2mod is possible with
this garbage left in and tada we have a proper accents.

[image: image.png]

As the module was updated last only 3,5 yrs ago I assume the maintainer is
still active, ie. they can be reached.

Or I can have a look too, the challenge is, that such a module rebuild can
open pandora's box, if I run some tests (
https://github.com/krisek/sword-test) or David checks them, then for sure
there will be some issues. I'm happy to fix some of them, but I definitely
do not speak Finnish, so I'm not sure this would be a responsible action.
If Dom gives me the go I can fix syntax & submit, but I don't want to end
up in the rabbit hole :) Best would be to reach out to the original
maintainer.

Kind regards,
k-









On Sat, Jan 21, 2023 at 8:26 PM Greg Hellings <greg.hellings at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Is Ezra properly setting encoding on the content it renders? Is it maybe
> setting a font that doesn't have the proper code points?
>
> --Greg
>
> On Sat, Jan 21, 2023, 13:12 Tobias Klein <contact at tklein.info> wrote:
>
>> Hi Kristof, David,
>>
>> Adding Encoding=UTF-8 to the module conf file ~/.sword/mods.d/finpr.conf
>> does not solve my issue.
>>
>> The text still looks the same as before ...
>>
>> What else could I do to further debug this?
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Tobias
>> On 1/21/23 5:18 PM, Kristof Szabo wrote:
>>
>> Hi Thomas,
>>
>> I suppose the problem is that finpr.conf contains no encoding information
>> (check the Hun* modules for reference), and if there is nothing specified
>> Latin-1 is the default. mod2osis (shouldn't be used !! :)) shows that the
>> module is in UTF-8, so there is a misalignment.
>>
>>
>> https://wiki.crosswire.org/DevTools:conf_Files#:~:text=Plaintext-,Encoding,-UTF%2D8%0AUTF
>>
>> Kind regards,
>> Kristof
>>
>> On Sat, Jan 21, 2023 at 4:49 PM David Haslam <dfhdfh at protonmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Thomas,
>>>
>>> What about other Finnish modules?
>>> eg. FinPR92, FinRK, FinSTLK2017
>>>
>>> Presumably you already tested (eg) German modules and found that umlauts
>>> and eszett are both rendered aright?
>>>
>>> Btw. FinPR renders aright in PocketSword (iOS/iPadOS).
>>>
>>> David
>>>
>>> Sent from Proton Mail for iOS
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sat, Jan 21, 2023 at 15:25, Tobias Klein <contact at tklein.info>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> When retrieving the text of the FinPR module I am getting some rendering
>>> issues with the Finnish Umlauts. This is based on a user's problem report.
>>>
>>>
>>> Romans 5:8 returns like this in node-sword-interface / Ezra:
>>>
>>> Mutta Jumala osoittaa rakkautensa meit� kohtaan siin�, ett� Kristus, kun
>>> me viel� olimme syntisi�, kuoli meid�n edest�mme.
>>>
>>>
>>> While it should like like this (rendered text copied from Xiphos):
>>>
>>> Mutta Jumala osoittaa rakkautensa meitä kohtaan siinä, että Kristus, kun
>>> me vielä olimme syntisiä, kuoli meidän edestämme.
>>>
>>>
>>> This occurs both on Linux and macOS (have not tested on Windows yet).
>>>
>>> Any pointers what could be the root cause? I generally have not observed
>>> rendering issues with other modules.
>>>
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>> Tobias
>>>
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