The Turkish NT actually had some more significant problems than that, so I have removed it from the site.

The primary problem was that it was copyrighted, so I have emailed the copyright holders to get permission for us to distribute it.

The second problem was that it had the OLB as its source. OLB texts are rather notorioiusly bad (at least IMO). The text conversion to OLB format resulted in significant data loss and mangling of data (which you describe). So we'll use a significantly superior text source if we get permission.

--Chris



[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The Turkish NT currently on crosswire has two significant problems
1) three characters are wrongly encoded - the capital I with dot appears as a capital Y 
with dot, the small I without dot appears as a small y with dot and the "yumusak 
g" a g with a circumflex appears as some runic kind of sign.

I have run the module through mod2osis, run a search and replace in "joe" for 
the three characters. After running the resulting fixed osis file through osis2mod  + 
fixing the config  file (inclusion of a a UTF-8 encoding reference) I have a functioning 
and readible module.

2) 529 verse containers in OSIS appear to be empty. The most promininet one is 
obviously Matthew 1.1. It is not that these verses are missing - mostly they 
appear to be part of teh subsequent or the predecessing verse. The overall 
verse flow is correct. I do not have the Bible underlying the module in print - 
my NT is about 100 years old and my Turkish is not too strong - so I am unable 
to say whether this is teh result of poor encoding or has some method - e.g. 
alternative counting variants used in Turkish Bible. TBH though it looks like 
shoddy encoding.

I would like to make my improved version (fixed characters) available and would 
hope that it could somehow replace the current unreadable module. I believe 
that presenting a readable module might well result in volunteers who are a lot 
better at Turkish than I am who might fix teh verse problem.

I understand that I am supposed to put up the changes for public downlooad, but 
am currently not in a position to do so (no webspace readily sorted) Is there 
anyone I could send the corrected OSIS source and the new config file?

Thanks

Peter


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