On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 7:17 AM, Greg Hellings <greg.helli...@gmail.com>wrote: > > Perhaps allowing each locale to define its own numerals and hyphen-like > character would be a good solution? > This is exactly what BPBible allows. Numerals are defined in the text section with the identifier 0123456789
e.g. for hindi/nepali 0123456789=०१२३४५६७८९ It also allow hyphens in book names using a workaround. For example, in vietnamese there will be these two lines for 2 peter (the first being standard SWORD line, the second mapping from that to a with-hyphens version). II Peter=II Phierơ II Phierơ=II Phi-e-rơ It's not the neatest solution but it does work. God Bless, Ben ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Multitudes, multitudes, in the valley of decision! For the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision. Giôên 3:14 (ESV) > On Sep 29, 2010 4:08 PM, "Daniel Owens" <dhow...@pmbx.net> wrote: > > > > On 09/29/2010 03:55 PM, Robert Hunt wrote: > >> New Zealand. > >> > >> Hello all, > >> > >> I am spending today studying the documentation on the Crosswire > >> Sword wiki so I'm likely to have a few questions. Please let me know > >> if this is not the right forum to ask questions. > >> > >> I see in http://www.crosswire.org/wiki/DevTools:SWORD that > >> localised book names are not allowed hyphens in them (because the > >> hyphen is used for verse ranges). In the Philippine language that we > >> worked with as Bible translators, the hyphen is a letter in the > >> alphabet and appears in several book names! > >> > >> Is this still a current limitation? If so, what is the suggested > >> work-around. > >> > >> Thanks, > >> Robert. > >> > > This problem came up with Vietnamese, and I was just told to drop the > > hyphens. The result was not ideal, but in the end it is still > > comprehensible in Vietnamese. I think the hyphen was needed because > > Vietnamese is monosyllabic, but more recent "transliterations" of > > foreign names have simply dropped the hyphens. Would the names still be > > comprehensible without the hyphen? > > > > Daniel > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 >
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