well, I've just checked in my ICU work and it seems to work, or at least the current version of tlitmgrtest works, and I've integrated the work from that into the lib but it still needs tested.
For the frontend, all you need to know SWMgr has a static bool isICU that lets you know at runtime if ICU has been enabled in sword ICU SWMgr now loads a UTF8Transliterator filter as a global filter by default - a comment in the code says that it wants to be handled differently but I can't see BibleCS doing that (talking of which if this default stays biblecsmgr.cpp will need to be updated). Transliteration is the conversion of text from one alphabetic script to another generally to try and make the text pronouncable if not understandable. e.g. logos is the greek for word transliterated into roman script. for anyone interested in stuff below the hood: the filter on construction loads the list of what sword transliterators are available from data into a map then when the filter finds it needs to use one it asks ICU if one has already been created, if so it uses it. otherwise it will use the stored info to load the transliteration rules from the data file and create a transliterator from that. then it passes it onto ICU to manage so next time it'll just be there. sbedtime now, but I've just thought, we ought to make the SWTransMap static and make sure that Load() only gets done once. also need to do a few things to autotool system like set sword icu data directory (defaults currently to /usr/local/lib/sword) Let me know if theres anything more I can say. Regards, Daniel
