There are two types of abbreviations for booknames: 1) abbreviations that are recognized when parsing user input (i.e. we can parse Isa 3:5). 2) abbreviations of a bookname that are shown to the user when an abbreviated form is used (i.e. for Isaiah 3:5, we show Isa 3:5).
Peter is talking about 1), but Martin is talking about 2). BPBible has some of the abbreviations you were looking for that aren't in jsword: fr, hu, and pt as well as hi (hindi) and ne (nepali) http://code.google.com/p/bpbible/source/browse/#svn%2Ftrunk%2Flocales%2Flocales.d Incidentally, I disagree with David that we should remain faithful to the abbreviated booknames used by the translators of each translation - consistency in the application is I believe more important than being perfectly faithful to the printed text. I don't mind the idea of having options for switching between different booknames/abbreviated booknames in one locale, though. 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 Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 7:28 PM, Peter von Kaehne <ref...@gmx.net> wrote: > On 10/01/11 23:37, Martin Denham wrote: > > > I did wonder if there might be an alternative source of short names, > > possibly from another sword project like Xiphos, that we could use to > > insert the correct short names in our properties files. > > I think the problem is - the locale abbreviations are only meant to be > there if the abbreviations are non-obvious, i.e. not deductable for the > software. > > First Corinthians > 1Cor > > but not: > > Isaiah > > Isa > > So, even those languages you listed as will not by necessity have the > "proper" short names. If they have, this is - strictly - redundant for > the purpose of the locale files (at least in their current incarnation). > > I copy this into sword-devel as there are more readers there. > > Peter > > > _______________________________________________ > jsword-devel mailing list > jsword-de...@crosswire.org > http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/jsword-devel >
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