[sword-devel] problem in libsword in indexing Genesis?

[Troy A. Griffitts]

Yeah, the "I" is interpreted by our verse parser as a roman numeral 
"1".  In the early days we had to deal with roman numerals in verse 
reference because of some very old commentaries.  Is there not another 
way to express 1st Corinthians?  As it stands now, anything with a 
trailing number (including a roman numeral) will not be able to 
determine when the book ends and the chapter starts.  Sorry about that.

Thank you for hunting it down,

Troy


On 7/19/26 4:38 PM, Zoltán Kovács wrote:
> Dear All,
> Now it is clear what happens.
>
> It is related to localized book names in the [Text] section of the 
> locales.d/*.conf files.
>
> Currently, it seems the problem occurs only if a book name ends with " 
> I". This occurs in two files: in la-utf8.conf and hu-utf8.conf (Latin 
> and Hungarian):
>
> $ *grep " I$" *-utf8.conf*
> hu-utf8.conf: Genesis=Mózes I
> la-utf8.conf:I Corinthians=Ad Corinthios I
> la-utf8.conf:I Thessalonians=Ad Thessalonicenses I
> la-utf8.conf:I Timothy=Ad Timotheum I
> la-utf8.conf:I Peter=Petri I
> la-utf8.conf:I John=Iohannis I
>
> If the locale is set to either "la" or "hu" by using e.g.
> CSwordBibleModuleInfo::swordModule().getKey()->setLocale("hu"), the 
> book names ending with an " I" cannot be correctly displayed. In 
> BibleTime, nothing is shown from that book. In Xiphos, only the first 
> chapter is shown. Diatheke is not affected.
>
> Maybe you have a quick idea why this happens. I will try to look a bit 
> deeper in the SWORD code soon.
>
> Best, Zoltan
>
> Kristof Szabo <kristof.szabo at web.de> ezt írta (időpont: 2024. okt. 
> 13., V, 20:01):
>
>     Hello hello,
>
>     interesting... I can reproduce in BibleTime, which is already good :)
>
>     I suppose we need to look further up than sword, as diatheke seems
>     to be ok
>
>         ❯ diatheke -b HunRUF -l hu -k '1Móz 1.1-1'
>         Mózes I 1:1: Kezdetben teremtette Isten az eget és a földet.
>         (HunRUF)
>
>
>         ❯ diatheke -b HunRUF -l hu -k '1 Mózes 1.1-10'
>         Mózes I 1:1: Kezdetben teremtette Isten az eget és a földet.
>
>
>     /irony on
>     The Hungarian modules and the locale file (which I think I did (or
>     not) a few decades ago) are simply perfect :) that cannot be the
>     issue.
>     /irony off
>
>     Let me check BibleTime and the modules a bit more later tonight,
>     maybe I can figure out something.
>
>     Kind regards,
>     Kristof
>
>
>     On Sun, Oct 13, 2024 at 6:38 PM Kovács Zoltán <kovzol at gmail.com>
>     wrote:
>
>         Greg, thanks for your quick response.
>
>         It seems if I change BibleTime's setting Display > Language
>         for names of Bible books to English, then I have no problem in
>         BibleTime:
>         image.png
>         Otherwise, if I change this to Hungarian (which is the default
>         for me), Genesis does not even show up in BibleTime.
>         I thought this is a global setting for libsword, but seemingly
>         not. If I start Xiphos, I get the same problem because the
>         Bible book names are still shown in Hungarian.
>         What I can force in Xiphos is to go to Edit > Preferences >
>         Options and set Special Locale to English, then restart Xiphos
>         and things work correctly.
>
>         So maybe it's not about libsword but some Hungarian settings
>         (maybe some Hungarian modules) that are used automatically
>         during the search or lookup.
>         I will try to search for that in the Hungarian Bible modules
>         and come back to you.
>
>         Thanks, anyway!
>
>         Best, Zoltan
>
>         Greg Hellings <greg.hellings at gmail.com> ezt írta (időpont:
>         2024. okt. 13., V, 16:21):
>
>             Can you be more specific about what it does? I haven't
>             noticed any issue in Ezra on Android.
>
>             --Greg
>
>             On Sun, Oct 13, 2024, 2:45 AM Kovács Zoltán
>             <kovzol at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>                 Hi,
>                 I use BibleTime and Xiphos on Ubuntu Linux 24.04. They
>                 are based on libsword (version 1.9 at the moment). It
>                 seems that both programs have issues when trying to
>                 read Genesis or jumping on certain verses in Genesis.
>                 This is independent of which module (Bible
>                 translation) I use, I tried KJV and others (including
>                 non-English translations), but I guess there must be a
>                 bug somewhere in libsword. Other books than Genesis
>                 work fine.
>                 Does anybody experience something like this? I have
>                 been facing this problem for a couple of years
>                 already, so maybe it's related not to version 1.9 but
>                 also earlier ones.
>                 Thanks for any hints in advance.
>                 Best, Zoltán
>
>
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