Simplified Chinese text problems

Arising from an email discussion (initially about text issues in the Simplified Chinese Go Bible),
a Chinese correspondent has reported text issues in the Chinese Bible SWORD modules.

He has illustrated just one passage Mark 5:1-3, but there must be many more. He writes,

The 1st place, traditional Chinese character is right but the simplified one is wrong.
The 2nd place, the simplified Chinese character should be different from the traditional one.

I will attach the image that came with the email message.

David

Mark 5:1-3 showing text issues.

Same image as PNG.

In an email referring to the duplicate issue added by David Liu, he wrote,

The original source bible.fhl.net has also many problems.
The better one is here: http://bible.godislove.cn/

I found the SWORD project has not been localized into Chinese. I can do some work for it.

David is one of the administrators of the Chinese Christian site www.GodIsLove.cn.

He has offered to send me the source text as an MDB file.

I sent Chris a copy of the RAR file provided by David Liu.

(+FIO)
Today I was able to use this source text to make a new preliminary build of the CUV Go Bible.
En route, I have converted the source text to ThML format.

I have this mostly finished. I'm using our original source, but employing their updated text. I've corrected a lot of their markup and retained the morphology that had been stripped by whoever did the last conversion. Right now, I'm delayed by some problems converting that morphology to something we can decode (like OpenScriptures' Hebrew morphology encoding).

In December, this was reported in the Go Bible Forum.

Hi, I found a serious text problem in Go Bible Chinese Simplified version.

There are many incorrect Chinese characters in the Bible. For example,
Mark 5：14 '告许' should be'告诉'
Mark 5：41 '繙出来' should be '翻出来'，'闰女' should be '闺女'。

Another example in 1 Corinthians 7:25

'忠心的心人' should be '忠心的仆人'.

The worse is this one, it changes the original meaning of the verse:
1 Corinthians 7:28 "...处女如出嫁，也是犯罪" which means "If a virgin marry,
she hath sinned". A "不"(meaning is NOT) is absent here.

It is better to use a verified version of Chinese Bible.

Comment [DFH]: Although the Go Bible was made from the earlier CCEL source text, it may still be worthwhile checking.

ChiUns omits two verses found in the KJV.

I Chronicles 22:19
John 7:53

The explanation for the first omission is as follows:

http://bible.fhl.net/

This website is the only one we know of where the online edition of the simplified Chinese Union Version (CUV) has the correct verse count in 1 Chronicles 22.
Most other sites with the CUV have only 18 verses, because they omit verse 1 of 19 and the remaining verse refererences are all out by -1. See
http://bible.fhl.net/gbdoc/new/read.php?id=10984

Notes:
Moreover, this site uses proper CJK punctuation in the Biblical text rather than superimposing Latin based general punctuation.
People using simplified Chinese are used to single and double curly quotes, while those using traditional Chinese will be used to the corner brackets.
fhl.net belongs to Taiwan so it uses the latter. So you can use different quote marks in simplified Chinese and traditional Chinese (e.g. for Go Bible apps).

By the way, do not use their simplified Chinese Bible texts directly, because there are some characters have not yet been converted from traditional Chinese.

Information supplied by the web-master of http://www.godislove.cn/

The text in the supplied file has this for the second omission:
53 (SEE 8:1)

Regarding the Simplified Chinese source text:
There are 2 kinds of Chinese translations for the word 'God'.
One is two-charactor '上帝'， the other is one charactor '神'.
To keep the same grid format, an ideographic space (U+3000) is inserted before '神'.
This feature is only required for printed Bibles, not for e-Books.