On Aug 19, 2006, at 9:22 AM, Eeli Kaikkonen wrote: > Is the encoding of the module .conf files in mods.d/ ISO8859-1? It's > stated nowhere, at least in the module making guide or in wiki. It > seems > that some modules have have book descriptions in encoding which is > compatible with 8859-1.
The conf is to be UTF-8 if the conf sets the encoding to UTF-8. It is to be cp1252 otherwise, which is a superset of ISO8859-1. > > This should be standardized. The best thing would be to move to > utf8 and > have two description fields, one for English/ASCII and one for native > language/utf8. 8859-1 discriminates against users of other encodings. > > Another thing which is wrong in .conf files is allowing the use of rtf > in 'about' section. Sword website and BibleTime both show only raw > code > e.g. in chincvt module's about section. Even that module uses only > \par > tag, the rest could be encoded in utf8. Complex formatting should > not be > necessary in about text. There's no use to allow rtf if frontends > don't > bother implementing it. It was stated in an earlier thread by Chris Little, that RTF codes for characters outside of ASCII should not be used. _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list: [email protected] http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page
