[bt-devel] NET Bible Unlock Bug

[Martin Gruner]

Jeremy,

you did not receive an answer on this thread - the bug has been fixed long ago 
with the solution you described. Thank you!

mg

Am Donnerstag 27 September 2007 00:37:36 schrieb Jeremy Erickson:
> 	As I posted on the wiki, I found a bug in the port of BibleTime to KDE 4
> which it turns out is also present in the current KDE 3 version.  When I
> start BibleTime, it prints a message, "WARNING: Unlock key of module NET is
> not valid."  However, it is nonetheless possible to use the module as if
> there was no problem.  I found out that the message is being printed from
> line 178 in src/backend/drivers/cswordmoduleinfo.cpp when it encounters a
> nonprinting character in the text of Genesis 1.  It does in fact decrypt
> the text properly, but some Hebrew characters (the name "Elohim" in
> footnote 2 of 1:1) are represented improperly in the QString and as such
> test as nonprinting characters.  This causes the test for a proper
> unlocking to fail. I think the root cause is using fromLatin1() when the
> text itself was not encoded in Latin 1.  Would there be a simple fix to
> make sure the text encoding is handled properly?  I think this would be
> sufficient to fix the bug.  Alternatively, would there be a cleaner way to
> check for unlocking?
>
> -Jeremy Erickson
>
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