[sword-devel] Devanagari text displays different in SWORD than in the source IMP file

[David Haslam]

I suppose a follow-up task for CrossWire is to determine which of our
existing modules (if any) have text that contains codepoint U+200D
Zero-width joiner.

-- David


David Haslam wrote:
> 
> Hi Tim,
> 
> By pasting your reply into SC Unipad, I have found the actual difference.
> 
> After the Virama, U+094D
> 
> The correct one has     U+200D Zero-width joiner
> The Sword one has      U+200C Zero-width non-joiner
> 
> My guess is that this is a bug deep in the Sword engine. 
> 
> We need Troy's expert eyes to find the root cause.
> 
> -- David Haslam
> 
> 
> Tim Chase-13 wrote:
>> 
>> Hi David
>> 
>> I have tried several different Unicode fonts and still the display of
>> some words are incorrect.  For instance you might want to try to display
>> the first word of Mark 1:1 of the text that I sent you.  The correct
>> rendering of this word is परमेश्‍वरका  but the way SWORD renders the
>> text, it looks like परमेश्‌वरका .  which is an incorrect rendering of the
>> 4th character in the word which should be a half character.  You'll
>> notice the hylanta below that character position. That is a half
>> character marker but, it should be invisable on this word.  Any words
>> that have half characters have the hylanta showing in SPW.  Try BPBible
>> and the words will render correctly.  
>> 
>> I know the differences are slight but they do make a difference.
>> 
>> Tim
>> 
>> 
> 
> 

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