Troy, Thanks for this work around. It surely made my life easier.
I wanted to make another note about the Arabic strings in the UI: The Arabic characters do not appear correctly unless I select Arabic as the language for non Unicode programs from Control Panel --> Regional and Language Settings --> Advanced. I think this is not much to ask from users who want to use SWORD in Arabic, I just want to confirm if this is a normal behaviour. Sameh On 5/7/05, Troy A. Griffitts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sameh, > Great to hear you got it working! Yes, we need to make a note of > this. > I believe someone else had this same problem a while back. It turns > out that if you hit enter at the top of your locale (have at least 1 > blank line at the top) everything will work fine. The technical problem > is that our SWORD config object looks for lines which start with a '[' > to determine the start of a new section. When the MS editors add the > BOM character to hint that the file is Unicode UTF-8, the line no longer > starts with a '[' and the section is skipped. We should really change > our config class to ignore these characters. My apologies for not > remembering this problem! Again, I'm glad you got things working. I > expect a new BibleCS release sometime near and before Jun 15. > > Excited to have your Arabic submissions! > > -Troy. > > > See7a wrote: > > All, > > > > I finally got arabic working in both locales and uilocales :) I'm > > sending this mail to let you know the solution and also because I > > think there should be some easier way to do it :) > > > > The cause of the problems I had is the BOM hidden characters added in > > the begining of the text file when I save it as utf8 in notepad. I > > also tried another text editor with the same result. SWORD doesn't > > seem to handle these charachters correctly. I just have open the file > > in some editor that displays them and delete them manually to get it > > to work. > > > > Now it's just a matter of writing some Arabic string. I will send > > again as soon as I have something completed. > > > > I just wanted to know when is the next realease of SWORD for Windows > > expected? I want to try to finish this translation - or at least a big > > part of it - before the coming release so that it can be added to the > > release package. > > > > Blessings, > > Sameh > > > > On 5/1/05, Joachim Ansorg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>Hi, > >> > >>>The files provided at > >>>https://crosswire.org/svn/biblecs/trunk/stage/uilocales.d/ are encoded as > >>>ascii though they have the Encoding value set ti utf8. Did anyone try > >>>saving one of these files as utf8? Do we have any > >>>working locales file that actually uses utf8 encoding? > >> > >>The de.conf file contains unicode umlaut characters. > >>Is your arabic utf8 locale file available somewhere so we can test it? > >> > >>Joachim > >>-- > >><>< Re: deemed! > >> > >> > >> > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ 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
