[sword-devel] BibleCS 1.4.5rc2

[Steve Tang]

Wait a sec. Our tireless hackers were able to localize the search dialog.
>From certain 1.5.4 beta level on that dialog starts to handle utf-8
Chinese and now it's almost perfect, except that I can't seem to change
font size of the result verse list.

Thanks for the explanations, which cleared up quite a few things for me.
But I still wish we can accomodate different flavors of people the best we
can, and my hats off to those who work around ideosyncracies to get His
Word out.

Rom 10:15 How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news...

I wish someone is sure zh_cn.conf & zh_tw.conf work correctly in Chinese
windows. These file look really suspecious when I use big5view, gbview,
& a few editors which use MingLiu font.

On Sun, 1 Sep 2002, Christian Renz wrote:

> Date: Sun, 1 Sep 2002 23:59:26 +0800
> From: Christian Renz <crenz-swordproject@web42.com>
> Reply-To: sword-devel@crosswire.org
> To: sword-devel@crosswire.org
> Subject: Re: [sword-devel] BibleCS 1.4.5rc2
> 
> >Also I'm not sure how these locale files work. I use win2k with En(US)
> 
> Windows handles its menus and dialogfields usually in a non-unicode
> manner. Frankly speaking, if you select the Chinese locale on a
> *English* version of Windows, I'd be *very* surprised if you would see
> the menu bar etc. displayed in Chinese characters. It should only work
> on a Chinese version of Windows. 
> 
> Actually, I can get it to work here by loading the NJStar
> Communicator. (Now I know that the help menu is called "shuo
> ming". Interesting.) But for Sword to provide that functionality, it
> would need to do all the menu item drawing and dialog item string
> drawing etc. itself. That's a lot of work to implement and probably
> would make sword a lot slower also.
> 
> Also, the locale files are not supposed to be in UTF-8. Because
> Windows is not using UTF-8 itself! For example, it would be wrong to
> have the German locale files in UTF-8 -- because Windows uses ISO
> 8859-1 to display them. Gibberish will occur. Likewise, the Chinese
> version of Windows probably uses GB respectively Big 5 internally to
> represent the text, so the locale file needs to be in that character set.
> (I am guessing here.)
> 
> I do fear this applies even up to XP, but I'd love to hear otherwise :-)
> 
> >locale. The bible texts box, lexicon box, search dialog show Chinese
> >correctly. 
> 
> Because they are using a special control that is Unicode-aware -- or
> rather was made Unicode-aware by our tireless hackers :-)
> 
> >But the edit boxes next to Search button don't show Chinese,
> 
> Because this is one of the standard windows elements that is not
> Unicode-aware.
> 
> Greetings,
>    Christian
> 
> -- 
> crenz@web42.com - http://www.web42.com/crenz/ - http://www.web42.com/
> 
> "The worst attitude of all would be the professional attitude which regards
> children in the lump as a sort of raw material which we have to handle."
>     -- C.S. Lewis, On Three Ways of Writing for Children
> 

Steve Tang...