Re: [Tyndale STEP - Programming] Unicode in databases

Hmmm. Good point. We need to check. I believe they just store them in the modules themselves. But it will impact the creation of the database schema, as presumably, if we are referencing scripture, we will want to be able to quote the text and therefore will also need unicode.

Java tends to abstract away the need to worry about encoding details, but worth checking on the crosswire community...

Chris

2009/11/2 Tyndale STEP Project <TyndaleSTEP@gmail.com>

Does anyone know how hard it will be to include Unicode for Greek & Hebrew?

Do we know what JSword does for Greek & Hebrew (I assume they use
Unicode) - how do they store it?

I think I remember Troy telling me that Unicode is easy to store as a
two-byte character with one bit set as a flag,
but I can't remember the details.

David IB

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Posted By Tyndale STEP Project to Tyndale STEP - Programming on 11/02/2009 05:37:00 AM