[be] [task #8079] Osis Language Definition or Use Ethnologue

[Teus Benschop]

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                 Summary: Osis Language Definition or Use Ethnologue
                 Project: Bibledit
            Submitted by: teus
            Submitted on: Thursday 04/24/2008 at 06:47
         Should Start On: Thursday 04/24/2008 at 00:00
   Should be Finished on: Thursday 04/24/2008 at 00:00
                Priority: 5 - Normal
                  Status: None
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any

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Details:

Trying to BE-export my own language data to Sword to import
it into BibleTime, I found no way to define a new language
(e.g.) Djimini.
This language selection tool is great, but does not include
all the languages of the world (more than 6000).

-> Build as last item in the language selection tool the
open New (or Z-New if necessary) which allows to add new
languages to this list or
-> Take the Ethnologe and put in all the languages of the world.


I suggest using the Ethnologue, as this is a standard
document and is intended to be used for such situations.
Only there is a problem that the Ethnologue data cannot
redistributed without written permission from SIL, and
further, it is sizeable and would inflate bibledit quite a lot.

So I propose to implement this as an extra options. The user
can press a button to download this language data, and once
done, he gets the additional languages. Any ideas?


I suggest to
- give a link to the Ethnologue http://www.ethnologue.com/
with a (short) explanation how to find the language code for
a certain language
- build in an extry option into BE to add this code (in
case, it is not found in BE already)


As from bibledit version 1.5.10 one can now enter a language by hand, but
BibleTime does not support this yet, and will display "Unknown language".






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