[sword-devel] .conf lang tags

[Troy A. Griffitts]

Martin,
	If your frontend really wants to support swapping fonts based on the 
content, you can derive the context based on the character ranges used. 
  For example, if you examine the characters used in a key for an entry 
and decide they are all in the Thai unicode pages, then you know you 
need a font that has the Thai pages populated.  I'm not quite sure 
adding support at a lower level of granularity than "all the code pages 
used in this module" is ideal.  It would mean adding much additional 
markup that can be derived just the same by looking at the character 
itself.  Does this make sense?

		-Troy.



Martin Gruner wrote:
>> From first thought, I would suggest keeping the single language tag
>>that represents the primary module language, and add addtional AuxLang
>>tags which represent other languages that are contained within the
>>module.  This will allow a frontend to select a unicode font with all
>>pertinent pages populated.
> 
> 
> Hey Troy,
> 
> that might not always be possible. Imagine a chinese-korean dictionary, and a 
> user having a special font for chinese (only) and another one for korean 
> (only). How should he work that out? 
> 
> Providing the possiblity to use a unique font for each language is our aim 
> with BibleTime, because this might be required in certain situations. Our 
> previous paradigm was having one Latin-1 font, and one font (like Code2000) 
> for all non-Latin-1 modules. That worked to a certain point, but is 
> definitely not the optimal solution, because even Code2000 does not support 
> all languages (like Chinese) correctly, or render each language as nice as 
> possible.
> 
> Therefore we need a way to determine the language of each single key of a 
> lexicon, because it may have keys in different languages. Or another solution 
> which would avoid the problem I described above. I am not so much asking this 
> for myself or the western Latin-1 world, but for the users who come from 
> other areas of the world.
> 
> Martin