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<font face="FreeSerif">Quite honestly, the Real Solution™ to this
problem is to bite the bullet, make a concrete decision that
Strong's numbers are to be encoded in exactly one way, and re-work
all existing modules to conform to that standard. Personally, I
advocate that such a standard would stipulate Strong's numbers to
be encoded in minimal (natural) digits: Encoding an OT reference
as "1" means a Heb Strong's dictionary key of "00001" and an NT
"1401" means a Grk Strong's dictionary key of "01401", that is,
zeroes to create dictionary module keys are prepended to natural
numbers to fill exactly 5 digits.<br>
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I've never bothered to attempt a final fix to this problem in
Xiphos for exactly the reason that, no matter which direction I
might take, it will be an unreliable hack; that in turn is because
the very concept of a leading '0' as a weak discriminant between
Heb and Grk Strong's numbers is itself an unreliable hack.
Whenever the subsequent conceptual change came along, to
distinguish Heb/Grk numbers according to a leading H or G (that
is, lucene search using e.g. "lemma:G1401"), <i>that</i> was the
point at which the leading-zero-encoding nonsense should have been
forced into the trash bin.<br>
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It was not, and here we are.<br>
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Probability of the Real Solution™ coming to pass: Vanishingly
close to zero.<br>
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