OP was not talking about a transliteration from the sounds of his email, but rather the original language where the hyphen is a letter.
You are equivalently proposing an English speaker to not use the letter s in the Bible names list. It might be comprehensible but it would be horrible usability and I probably wouldn't take such software seriously! Perhaps allowing each locale to define its own numerals and hyphen-like character would be a good solution? On Sep 29, 2010 4:08 PM, "Daniel Owens" <dhow...@pmbx.net> wrote: > > On 09/29/2010 03:55 PM, Robert Hunt wrote: >> New Zealand. >> >> Hello all, >> >> I am spending today studying the documentation on the Crosswire >> Sword wiki so I'm likely to have a few questions. Please let me know >> if this is not the right forum to ask questions. >> >> I see in http://www.crosswire.org/wiki/DevTools:SWORD that >> localised book names are not allowed hyphens in them (because the >> hyphen is used for verse ranges). In the Philippine language that we >> worked with as Bible translators, the hyphen is a letter in the >> alphabet and appears in several book names! >> >> Is this still a current limitation? If so, what is the suggested >> work-around. >> >> Thanks, >> Robert. >> > This problem came up with Vietnamese, and I was just told to drop the > hyphens. The result was not ideal, but in the end it is still > comprehensible in Vietnamese. I think the hyphen was needed because > Vietnamese is monosyllabic, but more recent "transliterations" of > foreign names have simply dropped the hyphens. Would the names still be > comprehensible without the hyphen? > > Daniel > > _______________________________________________ > sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org > http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel > Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page
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