Hey guys. A couple days back I added a new repository: crosswire-java
for all the java tools we use on the site. I hope to get them all into
a nice project and take out a bunch of silly hardcoded paths and such,
then we can easily fix things like this. I doubt we're specifying an
encoding when reading the conf files in, but don't remember. I'll try
to have a look when I get this new project up and running. I'm in
favour of defining a rule that says the .conf file is the same encoding
as the module (defined by the Encoding= entry in the .conf) And since
the default encoding is UTF-8, JSword could assume UTF-8 and only reread
the ones that specify otherwise-- I don't think there are many modules
that specify otherwise, but on handhelds and such, I don't want to
remove the ability for alternate encodings. Ideas?
-Troy.
DM Smith wrote:
A thread around 2/14/2005 said that a conf in utf-8 would work, but that
there were some problems if the file began with a BOM. Troy stated that
the software should be changed to ignore it. Don't know if that was done.
I presume that the thread meant that it may be in cp1252.
With Java, it uses utf-8 internally, but will try iso8859-1 it is not
utf-8. I does not try cp1252, which Sword uses in place of iso8859-1. So
with JSword, we have assumed that it could be utf-8, which means that
certain characters in cp1252 which could be in the conf are not supported.
It would be nice to know if the conf were utf-8 or not. If it is in the
conf, then JSword would need to read the file 2 times. If it were
external to the conf, then it would only need to read the file once (and
the meta-conf file once).
Best yet, it would be great to convert all of the conf's to utf-8 and be
done with it.
Joachim Ansorg wrote:
Hi,
I was just updating a german beta module and noticed a problem.
I encoded the config file about section in utf8, because the module is
in Unicode, too. In BibleTime we load the config file as unicode if
the line Encoding=UTF-8 is in that file.
The download page seems to assume latin1 as the config file encoding.
That's no problem for english modules but it needs to be addressed for
other languages.
What is the right encoding?
I can fix the download script if unicode should be used.
Joachim
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