Unicode replacement characters typically indicate a font issue, and would not normally be represented as such within the internals of a program. Have you tried using one of the command line utilities or examples directly?
--Greg On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 2:48 PM, David Haslam <dfh...@googlemail.com> wrote: > If you examine the result preview pane in the Xiphos Advanced Search > dialog, > the problem becomes apparent. > > Most Coptic Unicode characters are not displayed correctly. > > > > The remainder seem to have been converted to U+FFFD REPLACEMENT CHARACTER. > > i.e. All these Coptic letters are basically not handled aright by this part > of the software: > > U+2C81 ⲁ COPTIC SMALL LETTER ALFA > U+2C83 ⲃ COPTIC SMALL LETTER VIDA > U+2C85 ⲅ COPTIC SMALL LETTER GAMMA > U+2C87 ⲇ COPTIC SMALL LETTER DALDA > U+2C89 ⲉ COPTIC SMALL LETTER EIE > U+2C8B ⲋ COPTIC SMALL LETTER SOU > U+2C8D ⲍ COPTIC SMALL LETTER ZATA > U+2C8F ⲏ COPTIC SMALL LETTER HATE > U+2C91 ⲑ COPTIC SMALL LETTER THETHE > U+2C93 ⲓ COPTIC SMALL LETTER IAUDA > U+2C95 ⲕ COPTIC SMALL LETTER KAPA > U+2C97 ⲗ COPTIC SMALL LETTER LAULA > U+2C99 ⲙ COPTIC SMALL LETTER MI > U+2C9B ⲛ COPTIC SMALL LETTER NI > U+2C9D ⲝ COPTIC SMALL LETTER KSI > U+2C9F ⲟ COPTIC SMALL LETTER O > U+2CA1 ⲡ COPTIC SMALL LETTER PI > U+2CA3 ⲣ COPTIC SMALL LETTER RO > U+2CA5 ⲥ COPTIC SMALL LETTER SIMA > U+2CA7 ⲧ COPTIC SMALL LETTER TAU > U+2CA9 ⲩ COPTIC SMALL LETTER UA > U+2CAB ⲫ COPTIC SMALL LETTER FI > U+2CAD ⲭ COPTIC SMALL LETTER KHI > U+2CAF ⲯ COPTIC SMALL LETTER PSI > U+2CB1 ⲱ COPTIC SMALL LETTER OOU > U+2CC1 ⳁ COPTIC SMALL LETTER SAMPI > U+2CE8 ⳨ COPTIC SYMBOL TAU RO > > Only the few Coptic letters in the block U+03E2 to U+03EF are displayed > aright. > > It's no wonder that a search has so many spurious results if most of the > search space has been squashed into Unicode replacement characters. > > I'm a Windows user, as most of you know already. > Does the same thing happen in Xiphos under Linux? > > Is this an issue common to all SWORD based front-ends? > The fact that we see similar results in PocketSword strongly suggests it > is. > > Best regards, > > David > > > > -- > View this message in context: http://sword-dev.350566.n4. > nabble.com/Lucene-search-index-and-Coptic-tp4657103p4657106.html > Sent from the SWORD Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > _______________________________________________ > 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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