[sword-devel] StrongsHebrew module does not display on Windows and Android

Gary Holmlund gw at holmlund.org
Sun Sep 14 14:53:24 EDT 2025


I found a StrongsHebrew in the Crosswire beta repository. It is UTF-8 
and the problem is fixed with it.

I see it is dated January 2921. When does it get out of beta?


On 9/13/25 5:39 PM, Gary Holmlund wrote:
> I found that the StrongsHebrew module does not have a entry like this:
>   Encoding=UTF-8
> The sword "isUnicode" function returns false, which causes BibleTime 
> to try to read the module using "Windows-1252". This seems to have 
> been the standard for sword modules 10 or more years ago. The problem 
> is that "Windows-1252" does not exist on Windows or Android. This 
> makes StrongsHebrew unusable for them. StrongsRealHebrew does not have 
> this problem.
>
> Can the StrongsHebrew module be fixed?
>
> Are there other modules with this issue?
>
> Gary Holmlund
>
>


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