Adrian,
Thai falls into the "I never thought about that" category for me.
While I knew that Thai does not use spaces for word breaks, it never
occurred to me that we need smart display to find word breaks.
I'll be working on that for BibleDesktop.
I'm not sure that the OSIS should have unnatural zero width spaces.
That just seems wrong. Maybe the module should.
My guess is that we need to use ICU to find the word boundaries.
Regarding search JSword does handle Thai word breaks. The next release
will improve that.
In Him,
DM
On Oct 16, 2009, at 3:50 AM, Adrian Korten <adrian_kor...@sil.org>
wrote:
Good day,
After trying my Thai OSIS test module in BibleCS, I tried the module
and some other Thai ones in Xiphos (ubuntu version) and BibleDesktop
(windows xp). The OSIS data seems to display better but it is hard
to tell. Both of these programs do not do Thai word breaks
automatically (finding the word breaks where no spaces exist). They
only break by the 'phrase' spaces and so there are many line breaks
and it gets hard to read. (Would they work if zero-width spaces were
inserted. I didn't have time to test this.) This is too bad because
I like the clean simple interfaces.
And one additional note on BibleDesktop, I can change the default
font for a Thai text but I could not change the size. Perhaps, this
is because the program is out of date (but I don't remember the
installed version). This is a problem for foreigners with Thai as
the characters are small.
ak
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