Re: [sword-devel] Search bug New Arabic Bible, Not Shaped SVD Version

2012-11-26 Thread Chris Little
You're talking about vowels, not shaping. Shaping in Arabic changes the shape of the letter according to its context in the word (initial, medial, final, or isolated). I imagine unshaped Arabic would be very difficult to read. Arabic without vowel marks, on the other hand, is standard. I

Re: [sword-devel] Search bug New Arabic Bible, Not Shaped SVD Version

2012-11-26 Thread pola ashraf
Sorry for choosing the wrong word this wikipedia article talking about this topic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_diacritics Thanks Chris for your reply about the filter, Actually I don't have any contact details for the developers of the frontends to report them this problem, hope

Re: [sword-devel] Search bug New Arabic Bible, Not Shaped SVD Version

2012-11-26 Thread Peter von Kaehne
If it is the diacritics, then the solution is a patch which was submitted (but probably never applied) a year or so ago. Peter Original-Nachricht Datum: Mon, 26 Nov 2012 11:33:06 +0200 Von: pola ashraf 5...@hotmail.com An: SWORD Developers\' Collaboration Forum

Re: [sword-devel] Search bug New Arabic Bible, Not Shaped SVD Version

2012-11-26 Thread David Haslam
Which (I suppose) would have been a patch to the SWORD API ? So a similar patch would be necessary in principle to JSword ??? David -- View this message in context: http://sword-dev.350566.n4.nabble.com/Re-Search-bug-New-Arabic-Bible-Not-Shaped-SVD-Version-tp4651330p4651336.html Sent from

Re: [sword-devel] Search bug New Arabic Bible, Not Shaped SVD Version

2012-11-26 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Von: David Haslam dfh...@googlemail.com So a similar patch would be necessary in principle to JSword ??? No. If And Bible does not have a problem, then Jsword does its job correctly. Peter ___ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org

Re: [sword-devel] Search bug New Arabic Bible, Not Shaped SVD Version

2012-11-26 Thread Greg Hellings
On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 6:22 AM, Peter von Kaehne ref...@gmx.net wrote: Von: David Haslam dfh...@googlemail.com So a similar patch would be necessary in principle to JSword ??? No. If And Bible does not have a problem, then Jsword does its job correctly. However, BibleTime would require

Re: [sword-devel] Search bug New Arabic Bible, Not Shaped SVD Version

2012-11-26 Thread DM Smith
Correct. JSword uses Lucene's filter for the language, which does more normalization than the StandardAnalyzer which SWORD uses exclusively. The StandardAnalyzer should only be used for unaccented latinate text. Same with the SimpleAnalyzer. (In Lucene, an analyzer is a filter chain which

Re: [sword-devel] Search bug New Arabic Bible, Not Shaped SVD Version

2012-11-26 Thread Greg Hellings
On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 8:12 AM, DM Smith dmsm...@crosswire.org wrote: Correct. JSword uses Lucene's filter for the language, which does more normalization than the StandardAnalyzer which SWORD uses exclusively. The StandardAnalyzer should only be used for unaccented latinate text. Same

Re: [sword-devel] Search bug New Arabic Bible, Not Shaped SVD Version

2012-11-26 Thread pola ashraf
Hi, I'm not engaged in the design of Sword and JSword Engines but as i understand from the mentioned above, we depend on a library that get updates very frequently in java but no updates for its C port If I'm right, Can we search for other libraries to use ? The origin of the problem that

Re: [sword-devel] Search bug New Arabic Bible, Not Shaped SVD Version

2012-11-26 Thread Nic Carter
My understanding is that we are currently locked into a really old version of the C library it is no longer being maintained. Instead we need to port SWORD to use the current version of the library, which is actively being maintained... I gather some work has been done on this but I'm not sure