Xiphos Bible Study Software

On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 5:28 PM, Peter von Kaehne <refdoc@...> wrote:

> While I really like the idea of a direct link from the programme to IRC
> #gnomesword, I am slightly worried that this reliance on mibbit might
> cause us long term problems.
>
> Also, there are those who already have a IRC capable programme installed
> - like myself.
>
> Would it not be nicer if the link could be set to a installed programme?
> i.E. mibbit is default, but if I want something else to use I can reset
> this in my preferences?
>
> In this case even of Mibbit goes down the drain we can advise people to
> install something else and set the prefs accordingly
>
> Peter
>

IRC isn't that popular that a lot of people are already going to have
clients installed.  That being said, for those that do already have a client
installed, we should definitely respect that and use it instead of mibbit.
We might also want to link to a page with information on IRC in general.
Perhaps http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRC

Wesley

Peter von Kaehne wrote:
> After Karl found a workaround way of getting the menus to work in Farsi,
> I have finally managed to find the bug.
> 
> The problem was a missing "/<Separator>" in one of the Farsi messages.
> 

There are still some untranslated strings and I struggle to identify them.

The other remaining serious problem from my angle is that the book names
do not use the relevant locale.

I.e. my Farsi translation uses English book names.

Peter

> The other remaining serious problem from my angle is that the book names
> do not use the relevant locale.
>
> I.e. my Farsi translation uses English book names.
>

Is this related to the problems with Ubuntu locale we were
experiencing? Because this worked before, correct?

Matthew

Matthew Talbert wrote:
>> The other remaining serious problem from my angle is that the book names
>> do not use the relevant locale.
>>
>> I.e. my Farsi translation uses English book names.
>>
> 
> Is this related to the problems with Ubuntu locale we were
> experiencing? Because this worked before, correct?

I do not think so. And I am not too sure if it ever worked. I think
actually not. There were too many things untranslated, so I am really
not sure.

Wrt the Ubuntu bug - I am not sure whether this is a answer to prayer
wrt Farsi or a sign of some deep bug in my translation- Farsi is the
only language which currently seems to work. Weird.
> 
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"Matthew Talbert" <ransom1982@...> writes:
> Is this related to the problems with Ubuntu locale we were
> experiencing? Because this worked before, correct?

I do not recall ever having seen Farsi book names in the navbar in Fedora.

There exists /usr/share/sword/locales.d/fa-utf8.conf but there is no
/usr/share/sword/locales.d/fa.conf.  Is that a problem?

Karl Kleinpaste wrote:
> "Matthew Talbert" <ransom1982@...> writes:
>> Is this related to the problems with Ubuntu locale we were
>> experiencing? Because this worked before, correct?
> 
> I do not recall ever having seen Farsi book names in the navbar in Fedora.

No. I am now pretty sure that it was never there.
> 
> There exists /usr/share/sword/locales.d/fa-utf8.conf but there is no
> /usr/share/sword/locales.d/fa.conf.  Is that a problem?
> 

I do not know, but I think this is part of the problem.

I tried copying fa-utf8.conf to fa.conf in the locales.d

Something weird happened: For a second or so the Farsi name of
Revelation of John appeared and then it changed to whatever Bible ref i
had opened last time, but it used English book names again.

Peter

Peter von Kaehne wrote:
> Karl Kleinpaste wrote:
>> "Matthew Talbert" <ransom1982@...> writes:
>>> Is this related to the problems with Ubuntu locale we were
>>> experiencing? Because this worked before, correct?
>> I do not recall ever having seen Farsi book names in the navbar in Fedora.
> 
> No. I am now pretty sure that it was never there.
>> There exists /usr/share/sword/locales.d/fa-utf8.conf but there is no
>> /usr/share/sword/locales.d/fa.conf.  Is that a problem?
>>
> 
> I do not know, but I think this is part of the problem.
> 

I want to correct myself

> I tried copying fa-utf8.conf to fa.conf in the locales.d

I deleted fa.conf again

> Something weird happened: For a second or so the Farsi name of
> Revelation of John appeared and then it changed to whatever Bible ref i
> had opened last time, but it used English book names again.


The same behaviour persists. You see for a second or so ,مکشفه , the
Farsi term for Revelation and then it hops to whatever last reference
was open, but shows it in English.

Peter


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> Hi Matthew,
>
> what about trying zip library 'libzip'?
>
> http://www.nih.at/libzip/
>
> This library is built on top of the zlib library.
> The overhead added to the distributed binaries is around 100kB.
>
> I have no personal experience with this library.
> But this library is included in my Linux Distribution (Gentoo), in
> Ubuntu and I presume it should be available for other distros too.
> Also Windows should be supported.
>
> License is three-clause BSD
>
> Martin

Just a quick glance through this seems to suggest it would work.
Thanks for pointing it out.

Matthew