[sword-devel] Bug RtoL support in WinSword

[Peter von Kaehne]

windows 2000

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Datum: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 15:15:01 -0700
Von: Chris Little <chrislit at crosswire.org>
An: SWORD Developers\' Collaboration Forum <sword-devel at crosswire.org>
Betreff: Re: [sword-devel] Bug RtoL support in WinSword

> Which version of Windows are you using? Which version of MSIE do you 
> have installed?  Is your version of Windows a localized version?
> 
> Right to left language support is bad in Windows 9x. There is no 
> reasonable way for us to fix this for these versions of Windows which 
> aren't even supported by MS any longer.
> 
> Everything works fine in WinXP. I think Win2K is fine too. It sounds 
> like there may be a bug in the algorithm that detects whether to reverse 
> codepoint order in Win9x, but it was never more than a hack anyway.
> 
> --Chris
> 
> 
> Peter von Kaehne wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I have created (not yet posted to you) a Farsi complete Bible module.
> > 
> > In the process I think I have found a bug within Sword for Windows RtoL
> support.
> > 
> > I am running the newest published version (not a development version but
> 1.5.9)
> > 
> > My module is UTF-8 encoded and needs RtoL support. So I added copying
> from arasvd.conf the relevant directions.
> > 
> > As a result my text is mirror imaged in Sword for Windows, while working
> perfectly in Gnomesword. 
> > 
> > I then took the "Direction=RtoL" out of  farsi.conf and had suddenly
> readable RtoL text, but now the verses where ordered all from left to right.
> > 
> > I then looked at the existing Arabic module which specifically mentions
> in its config file "RtoL Support added" or some such and found that it has
> the same behaviour in WinSword - while I do not speak Arabic  I am able to
> discern enough of the vocabulary dt my Farsi knowledge which shares script
> and some vocabulary
> > 
> > Removing the Direction=RtoL  directive suddenly makes that module also
> readable but again the verses as blocks ordered the wrong way round.
> > 
> > This problem does not appear in gnomesword. I do not think it is in
> Bibletime either. 
> > 
> > In Gnomesword it is actually the other way round - if the Direction=RtoL
> is missing the text is ordered wrongly LtoR on a verse block level, though
> individual verses are readable RtoL.
> > 
> > This is a serious bug for the existing Arabic module and makes my
> current work on Farsi and some other RtoL modules pretty much unusuable in the
> Windows version. I am not sure whether other modules are affected. Presumably
> Hebvrew? I can not comment on MacSword
> > 
> > Peter
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
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