[sword-devel] Greek UTF-8/Unicode

Troy A. Griffitts scribe at crosswire.org
Fri Jan 18 02:55:07 MST 2008


Dear Robin,

If you saw squares, then you likely had the encoding correct and the 
font wrong.  Try opening BibleCS, then going to preferences and pick for 
your module a good greek unicode that supports pre-composed greek 
characters.

Hope this gets you going.



RLRANDALLX at aol.com wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Jan 2008 RLRANDALLX at aol.com wrote:
>  >> Hi,
>  >>
>  >> I'm trying to display Unicode Greek in RawLD  ThML with 1.5.9  
> BibleCS.  Does
>  >> anyone know what the .conf file should look like?  "Encoding=Unicode or
>  >> "Encoding=UNICODE" does NOT work.  I just get  open squares where 
> the letters
>  >> should have accents.
> 
>  >Should be UTF-8, "unicode" is usually for internal representation only
>  >and "unicode" in itself is ambiguous.
>  >
>  > Yours,
>  >  Eeli Kaikkonen (Mr.), Oulu, Finland
>  >  e-mail: eekaikko at mailx.studentx.oulux.fix (with no x)
> "Encoding=UTF-8" was the first thing I tried and that was when I saw the 
> squares first.
> Does it matter if it is "big endien" or "little endien" ? I opened my 
> .imp file in NotePad
> with Encoding=UTF-8 and all the accent marks appeared just fine.  I'm 
> thinking there
> may be a problem in BibleCS 1.5.9.  Would Troy or Chris care to 
> comment?  Does anyone
> know of a module that supports Greek with accents and works with BibleCS?
>  
> In His Grace,
> Robin
>  
> E-mail: RLRandallX at aol.com
> 
> 
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