Re: [sword-devel] Greek dictionary - input needed

2009-01-21 Thread Manfred Bergmann
Am 21.01.2009 um 05:29 schrieb Chris Little: ICU is not a requirement for using UTF-8 modules; rather than use ICU, most frontends (certainly BPBible, GnomeSword, BibleTime and I think MacSword as well) have defined their own string manager code (generally using the platform - qt, glib or

[sword-devel] German dictionaries

2009-01-21 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Brother Robert Sandrock OSB, the author of T'Nach, http://www.koenigsmuenster.de/rsk/install.jar a German freely distributable Bible study programme has kindly allowed us to import his extensive dictionaries (Greek, Hebrew and Latin) into CrossWire. These dictionaries have been created by

Re: [sword-devel] Wycliffe modules and beta testing

2009-01-21 Thread Daniel Glassey
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 9:23 PM, Chris Little chris...@crosswire.org wrote: Peter von Kaehne wrote: If this understanding is correct could we either move them in bulk into the main repository or- in my view vastly preferable - create a vendor repository for Wycliffe and move them there? If

[sword-devel] Normalising on the commandline

2009-01-21 Thread Peter von Kaehne
As a side issue of the other debate - how can I achieve NFC for a text I am working on via commandline utilities? All I can find in ICU documentation is about programming methods available, but I have seen no command line utilities. Peter ___

Re: [sword-devel] Wycliffe modules and beta testing

2009-01-21 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Daniel Glassey wrote: On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 9:23 PM, Chris Little chris...@crosswire.org wrote: Peter von Kaehne wrote: If this understanding is correct could we either move them in bulk into the main repository or- in my view vastly preferable - create a vendor repository for Wycliffe

Re: [sword-devel] Normalising on the commandline

2009-01-21 Thread DM Smith
Peter von Kaehne wrote: As a side issue of the other debate - how can I achieve NFC for a text I am working on via commandline utilities? All I can find in ICU documentation is about programming methods available, but I have seen no command line utilities. Peter You can use perl to do it,

Re: [sword-devel] Greek dictionary - input needed

2009-01-21 Thread Matthew Talbert
glib appears to have a good selection of basic Unicode handling functions. However, I don't see any reference made to UCA or CLDR. I'm sure they're implementing the normalization algorithms correctly, but if they aren't specifically using UCA and CLDR for collation, collation won't be

Re: [sword-devel] Normalising on the commandline

2009-01-21 Thread Chris Little
Peter von Kaehne wrote: As a side issue of the other debate - how can I achieve NFC for a text I am working on via commandline utilities? All I can find in ICU documentation is about programming methods available, but I have seen no command line utilities. DM's suggestion of using the Perl

Re: [sword-devel] Greek dictionary - input needed

2009-01-21 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Matthew Talbert wrote: My bias against ICU is that I have never been able to successfully compile against it, either on Windows or Linux. That has been quite a while ago, so I should try again. Also, I believe for a while, ICU wasn't included in many distros (this is just based off of comments

Re: [sword-devel] Greek dictionary - input needed

2009-01-21 Thread Matthew Talbert
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 2:05 PM, Peter von Kaehne ref...@gmx.net wrote: Matthew Talbert wrote: My bias against ICU is that I have never been able to successfully compile against it, either on Windows or Linux. That has been quite a while ago, so I should try again. Also, I believe for a

Re: [sword-devel] Normalising on the commandline

2009-01-21 Thread Troy A. Griffitts
Have a look at iconv and uconv. One come pretty standard on most UNIX systems and the other comes with ICU. I can never remember which is which. -original message- Subject: [sword-devel] Normalising on the commandline From: Peter von Kaehne ref...@gmx.net Date: 21/01/2009 7:59 am As a side

Re: [sword-devel] Normalising on the commandline

2009-01-21 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Chris Little wrote: uconv -f utf-8 -t utf-8 -x NFC -o output input Thanks a lot! ___ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above

Re: [sword-devel] Normalising on the commandline

2009-01-21 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Peter von Kaehne wrote: Chris Little wrote: uconv -f utf-8 -t utf-8 -x NFC -o output input Thanks a lot! Unfortunately learned in the process that my problems with search are not caused by lack of normalisation, but by inconsistent encoding - there are three different Arabic/Farsi Unicode