RE: [sword-devel] Dictionary problem in sword cvs

[Ted Welton]

PLEASE  remove me form this mailing list       -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of William Thimbleby Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2004 5:50 PM To: SWORD Developers' Collaboration Forum Subject: Re: [sword-devel] Dictionary problem in sword cvs   Cheers, I fixed it by uppercasing the keys I use within Cocoa. Also how does this apply to letters like the German ß which I know translates to 'SS' when I capitalise things? (eßen -> ESSEN)   Thanks --Will   On 18 May 2004, at 11:19, Troy A. Griffitts wrote:   > The dictionary keys are stored in in uppercase if language-applicable. > So when you search for Aaron, the lexicon driver algo does a binary > search for AARON.  If its toupper fails, then a logical binary search > for Aaron would effectively produce Baal, (a > Z) so Aaron would > logically be filed after AZUTHUTH, and before BAAL. > > We now provide a way for non-ICU builds of sword to supply to toupper > function that sword uses.  The Bibletime guys do this with a Qt call. > That way, they still get real UTF-8 toupper calls, without the need to > include ICU. > > We probably broke the non-ICU/non-supplied toupper code.  I'll have a > look at it soon. (or Joachim could see why the old logic isn't getting > called in this configuration (hint-wink). > > Hope this give you some idea of where we're broken, > >           -Troy. > > > > William Thimbleby wrote: >> Troy, I'm using the non-ICU version. I could call toupper but I don't >> at the moment and I'm not sure what it has to do with the problem. >> On 17 May 2004, at 08:15, Troy A. Griffitts wrote: >>> William, >>>     We've changed some code recently that handles 'toupper' >>> functions so that we better support i18n.  I would guess that your >>> configuration needs us to do some bugfixing.  What config are you >>> using? (ICU/no-ICU).  Does your windowing framework support any kind >>> of simple UTF8 toupper string function-- there is an easy way to >>> supply a utf8_toupper call if you have one available and don't wish >>> to include the entire ICU dependency. >>> >>>     -Troy. >>> >>> >>> >>> William Thimbleby wrote: >>> >>>> Hi, >>>> I seem to have a problem with the cvs version and selecting >>>> contents from dictionaries. A key always seems to jump to the next >>>> key that starts with a different initial letter. (eg. Aaron, Attus, >>>> Aziel -> Baal (1), Baal(1) -> Cab... in ISBE) this doesn't happen >>>> with numbers, such as the strongs dictionaries. >>>> Is this a bug? or something I have to fix? >>>> --thanks >>>> Will >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> sword-devel mailing list >>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>> http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> sword-devel mailing list >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> sword-devel mailing list >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel > > _______________________________________________ > sword-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel >   _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel

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