Re: [sword-devel] Unicode and the lack of

2016-02-10 Thread David Haslam
Manfred, I have a local friend who serves as a volunteer for MissionAssist (formerly known as Wycliffe Associates UK). He has experience of recovering Bible translations from Amiga 3" diskettes, that were thought to have been lost forever because the media was no longer supported by hardware or s

Re: [sword-devel] Unicode and the lack of

2016-02-10 Thread Manfred Bergmann
> Am 09.02.2016 um 22:52 schrieb David Haslam : > > Having ICU, but lacking a suitable Unicode font for aspects of a writing > system is another thing. AFAIK TrueType fonts are available. > Having a source text supplied in a non-Unicode font is a challenge. > Suppose [say] you had to convert Ti

Re: [sword-devel] Unicode and the lack of

2016-02-10 Thread DM Smith
Yes. UTF-8. SWORD modules are either CP1252 (MS Windows extended version of Latin-1) or UTF-8. 7-bit ASCII is both of these. But going forward should be marked as UTF-8. > On Feb 10, 2016, at 11:16 AM, Manfred Bergmann > wrote: > > What type of unicode are they? > I assume UTF-8. Are there m

Re: [sword-devel] Unicode and the lack of

2016-02-10 Thread Manfred Bergmann
What type of unicode are they? I assume UTF-8. Are there modules having other types (chinese, japan, etc.)? Manfred > Am 09.02.2016 um 22:06 schrieb Peter von Kaehne : > > Re the first question, i would treat any report re a new module not being > unicode as a bug report > > On 9 February 201

Re: [sword-devel] Unicode and the lack of

2016-02-09 Thread DM Smith
Best I can tell it affects toUpper on a string. This is part of the sorting of keys in a dictionary. It may affect non-lucene search. Not sure. Hope this helps. In Him, DM > On Feb 9, 2016, at 3:43 PM, Manfred Bergmann wrote: > > Hi. > > Now many of the new modules are unicode encode

Re: [sword-devel] Unicode and the lack of

2016-02-09 Thread David Haslam
Lacking ICU is one thing. Having ICU, but lacking a suitable Unicode font for aspects of a writing system is another thing. One is even permitted to make use of the Private Use Area in Unicode, though this only make sense if the suitable font is packed with the module. Having a source text suppl

Re: [sword-devel] Unicode and the lack of

2016-02-09 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Re the first question, i would treat any report re a new module not being unicode as a bug report On 9 February 2016 20:43:45 GMT+00:00, Manfred Bergmann wrote: >Hi. > >Now many of the new modules are unicode encoded. >What if on a platform is no ICU available? Can SWORD deal with unicode >text