[Pkg-crosswire-devel] Miscellaneous responses to various threads

[DM Smith]

Matthew Talbert wrote:
>> The SWORD lib (and it is properly branded in upper case) has one place
>> where ICU is critical. If ICU is not present SWORD's upper case string
>> converter will use an ASCII upper case routine (e.g. that from ctype) as
>> a fallback, otherwise it will use a UTF-8 aware ICU routine. There are
>> at least two places that this makes a difference:
>> 1) The rendering of <divineName>Lord's</divineName> into all upper-case
>> where the ' is a non-ASCII character. Without ICU, it breaks.
>> 2) Dictionaries are keyed and indexed on upper case words. When a user
>> selects a lower case word for lookup, it is uppercased. If it has
>> non-ASCII characters, it breaks.
>>     
>
> However, GnomeSword and BibleTime both provide their own string casing
> function for this purpose, both using standard unicode definitions to
> provide casing. So, as I've said, even if SWORD is built with ICU, it
> will provide no benefit to the end user, and may lead to stability
> issues.

Are you saying that they replace SWORD's StringMgr with their own? This 
is used internally by SWORD to do upper and lower casing.

In Him,
    DM