On 30/09/10 11:06, Chris Little wrote:
Seriously? Someone designed an orthography in which \x2D
(hyphen-minus) is used as an alphabetic character? What's its phonemic
value?
Oh! I guess I've been using hyphenated words in English since I learnt
to write. I unthinkingly used it in the word "work-around" in my
original email below. What Unicode character does that get encoded as?
Hyphen-minus is simply not a letter. You can see its character
properties at
http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/2d/index.htm. Scroll down
to see that the value of isLetter() is No. Hyphen-minus is punctuation.
Sword should not be modified to accommodate abuses of the Unicode
Standard. If you can find a hyphen-like letter in the Unicode
character repertoire, I would suggest changing to that (in all cases).
Letters will indicate that they are letters in their character
properties. If there is no such character, you should propose one to
Unicode.
"Abuse" sounds pretty strong to me in this context. It makes one really
wonder whether Unicode defines the world, or whether language came first
and Unicode came later? However, I guess using a different Unicode
character would be a satisfactory work-around if the user could find a
way to type that character (and knew to do it)???
--Chris
On 9/29/10 1:55 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.
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