Thanks! The SWORD Project should do the same. Once you've checked them
into JSword, I'll supply them to the SWORD Project.
-- DM
On 06/15/2012 10:52 AM, Martin Denham wrote:
I sent some screen prints of the Arabic book names to an Arabic
speaker and he confirmed they are fine for use in countries other than
Egypt.
However, there are no short names so he has agreed to enter them for us.
Martin
On 15 June 2012 13:34, Familie von Kaehne <ref...@gmx.net
<mailto:ref...@gmx.net>> wrote:
On 13/06/12 22:06, DM Smith wrote:
> On 06/13/2012 04:38 PM, Martin Denham wrote:
>> Is there any reason the Arabic bible book names resource is
>> restricted to Egypt: BibleNames_ar_EG.properties
>>
>> There does not seem to be a generic Arabic bible book names for use
>> in any country.
The reason jsword's bible book names are "Egyptian" is that libsword's
Arabic locale is also Egyptian Arabic.
There appears to be no good reason for that. Despite the
distinctiveness
of Egyptian spoken language the Bibles we have in our repos are all
universal "High" Arabic, if anything somewhat Lebanese, I would guess.
As the locale have been created usually based on existing modules and
texts, there should be nothing specific for Egypt in any of them.
The Smith Van Dyke was created in Beirut and the modern one is also in
collaboration with Lebanese Christians AFAIK. Both are used
routinely in
Egypt. There is a third reasonably common Arabic translation,
created by
UBS/Lebanese Bible Society, but we do not have it.
My suggestion is to delete the country - distinctive locale ending and
make it a general Arabic one. This applies to jsword and to sword.
I am cross-copying this onto the sword-devel list where I think
someone
else, more knowledgeable hangs out. I am sure he will pipe up if
there
is a problem with my suggestion.
Peter
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