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[JunlinLiao]

I'm new to e-sword and I like the program. However, I found several bugs upon first use.

1) The CUV-S module have Chinese words/characters not displayed. (for reference, Acts 3:2-3)

2) The search function does not work with Chinese words at all. When you search the Chinese versions, nothing turns up.

3) In the bibles window, you can select any verse in any of the English versions and the mouse pointer is accurate. However, you cannot select verses correctly with any of the Chinese versions. It's misaligned by several lines. That means several lines by the end of the chapters could never be selected and all the verse specific context menu driven functions no longer work as expected. For example, a right click of of verse Act 3:12 to paste to study notes, I get verse 7. I click on verse 10 then verse 6 is highlighted. I select text of verse 10-11 and then copy, verses 6-7 are copied.

The e-sword is a great tool and I'm wondering if those bugs could be quickly resolved?

God bless you.

[jonathon]

1) The CUV-S module have Chinese words/characters not displayed. (for reference, Acts 3:2-3)

I'm not sure what exactly you are referring to here. Doing a cut and paste from my collection:
{This is a straight cut and paste. Some of these resources have obvious, glaring issues. }

Acts 3:23

(CGV) And it shall be, that every life that shall not listen to that prophet, shall be completely destroyed from among the people.

(LZhZhs) 将来每一个不听那神言人的人、都必从民间被灭绝。’

(CUV-S+) (1161) (2071) (5704)凡3956 5590不3361听从191 5661那1565先知4396的，必要从1537民2992中全然灭绝1842 5701。

(CUV-T+) (1161) (2071) (5704)凡3956 5590不3361聽從191 5661那1565先知4396的，必要從1537民2992中全然滅絕1842 5701。

(JMSJ-T) 凡不聽從的，都要從同胞之中被剷除掉』[參看《申命記》十八章十五、十九節]。

(CSB) 所有不听从那位先知的人[8]，都要从民中被全然灭绝。’[9]

(CSB+) 所有G3956不G3361听从G191那G1565位先知G4396的G3748人G5590[8]，都要从民G2992中G1537被全然灭绝G1842。’[9]

(CUV-S) 凡不听从那先知的，必要从民中全然灭绝。』

(CUV-T) 凡不聽從那先知的，必要從民中全然滅絕。』

(CUV) 凡不听从那先知的，必要从民中全然灭绝。’

(CUV+) 凡不G3361听从G191那G1565先知G3588+G4396的G3748+G1437，必要从民G3588+G2992中G1537全然灭绝G1842。’

(Chinese-S) 无论谁不听从那位先知，必定从民中灭绝。’

(Chinese-SU) 凡 不 听 从 那 先 知 的 ， 必 要 从 民 中 全 然 灭 绝 。

(Chinese-T) 無論誰不聽從那位先知，必定從民中滅絕。’

(Chinese-TU) 凡 不 聽 從 那 先 知 的 ， 必 要 從 民 中 全 然 滅 絕 。

2) The search function does not work with Chinese words at all. When you search the Chinese versions, nothing turns up.

For all practical purposes, e-Sword can only search text that uses the Latin writing system.
There are a couple of workarounds, but they all require resources to be constructed using a very specific toolchain. One that is not publicly available.

[3) In the bibles window, you can select any verse in any of the English versions and the mouse pointer is accurate. However, you cannot select verses correctly with any of the Chinese versions. It's misaligned by several lines. That means several lines by the end of the chapters could never be selected and all the verse specific context menu driven functions no longer work as expected. For example, a right click of of verse Act 3:12 to paste to study notes, I get verse 7. I click on verse 10 then verse 6 is highlighted. I select text of verse 10-11 and then copy, verses 6-7 are copied.

Can you make a video showing the problem. I wasn't able to replicate the behaviour you describe.

jonathon

[ebulerdo]

Hi JunlinLiao

1) The CUV-S module have Chinese words/characters not displayed. (for reference, Acts 3:2-3)

I have installed that module and I don't see anything strange at Acts 3:2-3.

Please, check this:
- Are you using the last version of e-Sword (v10)? If not, install it.
- Did you download the official module with the built-in downloader inside e-Sword, or found it somewhere else? If not, try downloading it from there.
- Inside e-Sword, go to the Options - Fonts menu. What fonts do you have set there for Chinese? I have Simsun for Simplified Chinese and MingLiu for Traditional Chinese. Try setting those.

If none of this fixes the problem, would you please take a screenshot of those verses and send it to the forum or to me?

2) The search function does not work with Chinese words at all. When you search the Chinese versions, nothing turns up.

E-Sword has some problems seaching Chinese words, but there is a workaround: When you are in the search window, after you type the words you want to find, click on "Find all words" and replace it with "Regular expressions". It will work that way.

NOTE FOR JONATHON: Searching in non-Latin script modules has been improved a lot in the latest versions of e-Sword. I have been able to search Cyrillic and Arabic with the default setting, and Chinese with the regex option as well.

3) In the bibles window, you can select any verse in any of the English versions and the mouse pointer is accurate. However, you cannot select verses correctly with any of the Chinese versions. It's misaligned by several lines. That means several lines by the end of the chapters could never be selected and all the verse specific context menu driven functions no longer work as expected. For example, a right click of of verse Act 3:12 to paste to study notes, I get verse 7. I click on verse 10 then verse 6 is highlighted. I select text of verse 10-11 and then copy, verses 6-7 are copied.

I have tried that and it worked perfectly. I right-clicked in Acts 3:12, then "Paste in Study Notes" and it pasted the correct verse.

Definitely you have either an older versions of e-Sword or a defective module. I would recommend updating both.

Please, tell me how it went.

Regards,

Carlos