Re: [sword-devel] Chinese locale. Protestant vs. Catholic

2020-01-03 Thread Cyrille
Dear Troy, A bug report was open on Xiphos about an error in the chinese simplified local. I corrected it in the attached files. You have the "normal" zh_CN and the alternate catholic. Happy New Year, Br Cyrille Le 18/06/2019 à 13:28, Troy A. Griffitts a écrit : Dear team, Recently Fr. Cyril

Re: [sword-devel] Chinese locale. Protestant vs. Catholic

2019-06-19 Thread Troy A. Griffitts
Peter, At first thought, I agree with you. We could certainly have maybe a dash delimited variety of categories for each locale-- whatever someone might want. We kindof do this already with the numerous _abbrev.conf file. These generally are for people and purposes which want shorter Bible book

Re: [sword-devel] Chinese locale. Protestant vs. Catholic

2019-06-19 Thread Michael H
I think a configuration in the front ends which allows the user to select the menu selection from a list Current work's abbreviations (changes for each work) Language setting (locale) A specific installed work's abbreviations Custom (user entered). ___ s

Re: [sword-devel] Chinese locale. Protestant vs. Catholic

2019-06-19 Thread ref...@gmx.net
Thanks Cyrille, the matter is not how many books are different, but that some are. Currently our locale system allows language and country as per ISO 631(?)' What we in essence need is the option to have language, country and naming variety (which may be denominational or else). I do not think that

Re: [sword-devel] Chinese locale. Protestant vs. Catholic

2019-06-19 Thread Fr Cyrille
You are right for this books in English or French. But for Chinese all the books are different between protestants and Catholics bibles. My Chinese brothers don't understand the protestant translation. Le 18 juin 2019 22:28:29 CEST, Peter von Kaehne a écrit : >On Tue, 2019-06-18 at 10:28 -0700,

Re: [sword-devel] Chinese locale. Protestant vs. Catholic

2019-06-18 Thread Peter von Kaehne
On Tue, 2019-06-18 at 10:28 -0700, Troy A. Griffitts wrote: > Does anyone have thought about this? This touches a bit on what > David asked about a few weeks back-- different traditions having > different names, even though they may share the same language. I think to consider it only a RC/Prot

[sword-devel] Chinese locale. Protestant vs. Catholic

2019-06-18 Thread Troy A. Griffitts
Dear team, Recently Fr. Cyrille has submitted a new Chinese locale which he describes as a "Catholic" version of the Bible book names.  I have committed this, for now, into an 'alt' folder under our locales.d/ folder: http://crosswire.org/svn/sword/trunk/locales.d/alt/ Here is a direct link to o