BW 7.0: Chinese, Korean and Arabic Downloads

Hi BW 7.0 Users,

We did not receive sufficient response for our request for people to help test the new Korean, Chinese and Arabic versions in BibleWorks, so we are going to just make a semi-public release. These files are available for free to all 7.0 users. To download them open the updater in BibleWorks 7 as usual. Then enter the accesscode "fareast" (and yes, I know Arabic is not Fareast). Just append it to whatever codes you already have (with an intervening space). Once you do that you will see the following posts:

1. AVD and AVX - new versions of the Van Dyke Arabic Bible. AVX is for Windows XP and AVD is for Vista.
2. CU5 and CU5X - The Chinese Union Bible in Big 5 Character Set format. CU5 is for Vista and CU5X is for Windows XP.
3. CUS and CUSX - The Chinese Union Bible using the "Simplified" Character Set. CUSX is the XP Versions.
4. KOR - This is a Public domain Korean Bible. Unless we have reports of problems this version will be he same on Vista and XP.
5. BibleWorks 7.0.018w - a new executable version with Chinese and Korean support.
6. A new Online Help file. Please see Chapter 18b for details on using these new versions.

You will have to add Right to Left and Far East Language support before using these versions in XP. Your version of Vista may or may not need to have this added. We run Vista Ultimate and these items are installed by default. This not true on XP. You will also need to add Keyboards to support Chinese and Korean. If you have used Chinese and Korean already on Windows you likely have done this already.

Note that this release has different support for Arabic than the release last week. This one uses the system IME just like Chinese and Korean.

Please be sure to read the new section 18b carefully before using these new versions. Report problems or suggestions here.

We are implementing this with a unique access code to protect people who do not want to mess with the new executable until it has been thoroughly tested. The changes required to support these complex languages were extensive and the possibility of introducing new bugs is real. But we will fix them as fast as we can. We hope these new versions are helpful to our Korean, Chinese and Arabic users.

I've downloaded all, but I can't see the Chinese and Korean versions. They don't appear anywhere in the display version list.

I'm running XP SP2, and as far as I know, all language and keyboard support is installed.

Hi Scott,

When the program loads all DBU files it checks to see if the locale in the DBU is supported. The only reason I can think of that they would not show up is that the Far East language support is not installed. You may also have to reboot after the Language Support is installed. Open the Regional and Language applet and see if the Far East pack is installed. Note that this is different from Hebrew and Arabic support..

Mike

I did the install of East Asian languages. I don't know Korean or Chinese so I can't speak to much of its use, but the characters appear fine and so far no unusual program quirks, but I also haven't played around much to try to make it do anything demanding.

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The only reason I can think of that they would not show up is that the Far East language support is not installed.

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You are correct. I thought it was installed previously because I can display Chinese in e-Sword, etc.

However, when I went to control panel and tried to enable support, it tells me it needs file x, and to insert my CD. Of course, since my computer already came with XP installed, and since I didn't get a CD, and since the required files don't appear to be anywhere on my computer, I guess I'm stuck until I buy a Vista CD or something. -:)

No big deal. I don't really need those langauges anyway.

If your system came with XP installed the files may be on your hard drive somewhere.
Mike

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Originally Posted by MBushell

If your system came with XP installed the files may be on your hard drive somewhere.
Mike

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I run XP installed and it found the files it needed on the harddrive, didn't even ask to find them or insert a CD.

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Originally Posted by MBushell

If your system came with XP installed the files may be on your hard drive somewhere.

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Nope. I searched my HD for the requested files, and no joy. But like I said, no big deal. As long as the Arabic works, which it does, I'm happy.

I'd be more than happy to help test the Arabic, but my computer has no internet access, and these updates (as I've posted before) aren't on the download page. So, I just don't have access to them.

When I installed the new Chinese upsate to my Chinese Xp, it did not show up anything. Could someone help me
thanks

Instructions for installation of support for Far Eastern languages (as well as the right-to-left support, required for the Arabic Bible) can be found in the following Customer Support FAQ.

http://www.bibleworks.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2393

In that posting I added the step of inserting the Windows XP installation CD into the drive because some, like myself, may have left these options unchecked at the time of upgrading to Windows XP.

I found that if I was prompted by the system to insert the CD to find the files needed, I was also required to point to the folder where the file would be found. I cancelled out of that and started the process again with the CD already in the drive. With the CD already in the drive, it found the file it needed automatically, without user intervention. If you are sure that all of the files are already on the PC (such as those cases where Windows XP was already installed on the PC when it was purchased,) then inserting the CD can be skipped.

Last updated: EM/April 10, 2007

I found a bug that seems to be related to the new update. I have done all the proper upgrades except I have not added Chinese or whatever keyboards, however all the fonts appear correctly, etc with the regular East Asian support.

What happens is when I am in BGT, I right click on a word and bring up the Lexicon browser. Sometimes the command line on the lexicon browser works (usually at first), but then it changes and instead of typing in greek, it only shows Latin letters and it is in a superscript format, taking the upper part of the cursor. Also a green box is flashing in the top right corner of the lexicon browser command line when this is happening.

Michael,
This is fixed now (I hope). Let me know if you have other problems.
Thanks,
Mike

HP wanted me to uninstall IE 7 and revert back to IE 6 to enable me to add Far East support. I told them no, they needed to come up with a better solution. After a few back and forths, here is what I received from them just now --

"You can search for the xjis.nls file in the PC and see if that exists. If it is there in the PC, please check the location of the file and then give the same path while installing the language pack. If you are unable to find the File, then you need to go to any Windows XP PC and search for the file and copy it to a Thumb drive and then use the same file in your PC."

I already knew I needed this file, but I thought HP could just email the file to me, but apparently that would be too easy.

So...

if anyone wants to email me this file, I'd appreciate it. Email it to --

comments at lamblion.net

Thanks.

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Originally Posted by MBushell

Michael,
This is fixed now (I hope). Let me know if you have other problems.
Thanks,
Mike

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Works great now.

And Scott, I emailed you the file, let me know if it works out.

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Originally Posted by Michael Hanel

And Scott, I emailed you the file, let me know if it works out.

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Thanks, Michael.

And thanks, Mike and Michael, and the rest of the BW staff. The Far East languages look great in BW. 'Course, I can't read them, but they do look great!

I imagine that there is some correlation between the following and the fact that I have been adding so many versions, user modules, etc., but the BW startup time seems to be dramatically slower than it was a few months ago. I'm guessing there isn't much that can be done about that. Or is that incorrect to say that versions and modules slow down the BW startup?

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Originally Posted by Michael Hanel

I imagine that there is some correlation between the following and the fact that I have been adding so many versions, user modules, etc., but the BW startup time seems to be dramatically slower than it was a few months ago. I'm guessing there isn't much that can be done about that. Or is that incorrect to say that versions and modules slow down the BW startup?

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I'm up to date on all updates and I don't notice any degradation of speed.

Of course, the first time BW is run, it takes longer to load than on any following instances, but that load time appears to be the same as it always was as well.

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Originally Posted by Adelphos

I'm up to date on all updates and I don't notice any degradation of speed.

Of course, the first time BW is run, it takes longer to load than on any following instances, but that load time appears to be the same as it always was as well.

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Well perhaps it's just all the other programs that are running in the background. There never is a time when BW is the only program I have open.

Michael,

It definitely does take longer to load when the number of versions increases. Some info is preloaded for each version when the program starts. But I haven't noticed any huge differences. You could try defragmenting your disk. A full disk that is badly fragmented can make a big difference. If we get more reports of slow load time, we'll try to do some work on it. If you are running Vista there are known and serious problems with disk IO. It is often so slow you think the system is hung.

Mike

If WTT is the search version in the main browse window, I cannot make KOR (or the Chinese Bibles) the search version in a secondary browse window (which I always use to work on verse map files). The search version in the secondary window reverts to WTT as soon as I try to scroll or switch to browse mode. If, however I do get a Chinese version to be the search version in the secondary browse window (by first changing the search version in the main window), it automatically becomes the font in the editor, which I don't want.

Whenever the Chinese versions have two verses mapped together, the second verse is highlighted (in black), making it hard to read the characters. Otherwise I've made good progress toward providing verse map files for all the new versions.

Mark Eddy

With the latest update, the font size in Arabic no longer works.

That is, when I open the .dbu files and change the font size, it has zero effect.

And there is no way to revert back to a previous version of W.

I have received the KOR bible update to my BW7.
But I do not see the new version on my BW.
I am using the Korean Windows XP OS. Does anyone of you Senior members have a solution to my problem? Thanks in advance!

Joseph Park
THM Candidate
Dallas Theological Seminary

Hello,
I have several Korean versions (now searchable) as BW's add-on.
I don't have any problem with the KOR and the others installed and I am utilizing Windows XP in English as OS.

God bless.
Ronen Kim,

Thanks for posting the Chinese Union versions in BW. In the past I used e-sword in addition to BW simply because e-sword has the Chinese bible. Now I basically have no need for e-sword.

The default font for CU5X doesn't look nice (on my XP SP2 with IE7). How do I change the font or at least the font size? When I go to Tools -> Options -> Fonts, it only has options for Vietnamese fonts but not Chinese.

But in any case, thanks so much for your effort.

In Him,

Leonard Li
www.sbecc.org
Palos Verdes, CA

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Originally Posted by lli4g

The default font for CU5X doesn't look nice (on my XP SP2 with IE7). How do I change the font or at least the font size? When I go to Tools -> Options -> Fonts, it only has options for Vietnamese fonts but not Chinese.

But in any case, thanks so much for your effort.

In Him,

Leonard Li
www.sbecc.org
Palos Verdes, CA

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try this thread.

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Originally Posted by lli4g

Thanks for posting the Chinese Union versions in BW. In the past I used e-sword in addition to BW simply because e-sword has the Chinese bible. Now I basically have no need for e-sword.

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Ditto! Much thanks for adding in the Chinese versions! Woohoo!

With the latest update, my View Popup versions doesn't work properly. To wit: I have KJV/NRS WTT SCR as the setting.

When I hover over verses, only the KJV shows up.

I donwloaded the Korean version but I can't find Korean in the "choose display version."

I am using windows XP Engshing version and I already installed the Far East language support pack.

Where should I go to find 'my language' to come up?

Hi! I am a THM student and my mother tongue is Cantonese (familiar with the Chinese Big5). I can't see the Chinese version Bible after installing your new version. I am using the Windows XP version and I have already installed the files of East Asian languages (through activitating the relevant button in the 'Regional and Language option' under 'Control Panel' ) and have restarted my computer afterwards but the Chinese Bible (CU) still did not show up in my Bibleworks 7. Please advise how I should handle the case.

Benjamin

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Originally Posted by MBushell

Hi BW 7.0 Users,

We did not receive sufficient response for our request for people to help test the new Korean, Chinese and Arabic versions in BibleWorks, so we are going to just make a semi-public release. These files are available for free to all 7.0 users. To download them open the updater in BibleWorks 7 as usual. Then enter the accesscode "fareast" (and yes, I know Arabic is not Fareast). Just append it to whatever codes you already have (with an intervening space). Once you do that you will see the following posts:

1. AVD and AVX - new versions of the Van Dyke Arabic Bible. AVX is for Windows XP and AVD is for Vista.
2. CU5 and CU5X - The Chinese Union Bible in Big 5 Character Set format. CU5 is for Vista and CU5X is for Windows XP.
3. CUS and CUSX - The Chinese Union Bible using the "Simplified" Character Set. CUSX is the XP Versions.
4. KOR - This is a Public domain Korean Bible. Unless we have reports of problems this version will be he same on Vista and XP.
5. BibleWorks 7.0.018w - a new executable version with Chinese and Korean support.
6. A new Online Help file. Please see Chapter 18b for details on using these new versions.

You will have to add Right to Left and Far East Language support before using these versions in XP. Your version of Vista may or may not need to have this added. We run Vista Ultimate and these items are installed by default. This not true on XP. You will also need to add Keyboards to support Chinese and Korean. If you have used Chinese and Korean already on Windows you likely have done this already.

Note that this release has different support for Arabic than the release last week. This one uses the system IME just like Chinese and Korean.

Please be sure to read the new section 18b carefully before using these new versions. Report problems or suggestions here.

We are implementing this with a unique access code to protect people who do not want to mess with the new executable until it has been thoroughly tested. The changes required to support these complex languages were extensive and the possibility of introducing new bugs is real. But we will fix them as fast as we can. We hope these new versions are helpful to our Korean, Chinese and Arabic users.

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Hi Benjamin,

Do you not see it at all? Or is the font just incorrect? What happens if you type CU5 or CU5X on the command line? If you don't get an answer here contact support@bibleworks.com.

The Chinese versions were built with a particular locale and that locale has to be available on your machine. You can edit the cu5.dbu file to change the locale if you need to. The default is Chinese_Taiwan.950 and Chinese_Singapore.936 for CU5X and CUSX (for XP) but you could try just the word "chinese". If you can't get it to work contact support@bibleworks.com.

Mike

I have already sent in this problem to the tech support. I thought I put it up here for you to try other language versions to see other languages have the same problem.

When I put Matt 5:1-20 in the command line, this is what comes up (see screen1). And when I put Matt 5:10-30, now verse 10 is clear of color but the remainder of the text is in various color (see screen2).

It is only when I disable the data color, the colors go away. However, I never added any color to any of those verses in the first place.

It seems like it always happens on verse 10 and beyond. And it occurs when I choose to display more than one verse. The first verse displayed within the specified scriptural range is always clear of any color.

Prior to BW official chinese version release, I had already made my own chinese version by putting it under Locale:Vietnamese, and changed the vietnamese font to chinese font. That worked for me. But the only problem is that some chinese characters were split in half and became unreadable. But it didn't have the problem described above. Now, I put my chinese version under this new created locale Chinese_Taiwan. BW no longer splits the chinese characters in half anymore. However, my own version now has the same display problem as described above.

Could something be wrong with the locale field? Both CU5X and CUSX has the same problem too.

Dennis

http://www.bibleworks.com/forums/att...1&d=1177505253

http://www.bibleworks.com/forums/att...1&d=1177505259

Hi Dennis,

I turned off colors for double-byte versions (Chinese, Korean and Arabic) until we can get time to look at this. You can grab the latest exe at your convenience.

Mike

Can I use it in version 6?

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Originally Posted by landuk

Can I use it in version 6?

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No, these version use unicode fonts, which are not supported in BW 6.
Sorry, but there are lots of good features in BW 7, so you might want to upgrade now, especially if you can really use these new versions.
In Christ,
Mark Eddy

Is there a way to change the Arabic font size?

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Originally Posted by Ben Spackman

Is there a way to change the Arabic font size?

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Will this link help?

Perfect! My home PC hasn't been connected to the internet for sometime, and I now have a Macbook running parallels. I finally get to play with some Arabic!

Dear Mr. Bushnell,

Thanks for bringing Chinese Bible to BW :). This will be so useful to the large number of Chinese speaking churches.

Not to appear too greedy, is there any chance of getting NCV (New Chinese Version) into BW too? It is available currently online through Sword Project. The copyright belongs to Worldwide Bible Society, Ltd.

Thanks again for a great job.
John Chan

John,
We'll check into it.
Mike