SILEditor issue
Posted: Thu Mar 14, 2013 3:06 pm
Hi Igor,
Some weird behavior was noticed recently when I let SILEditor finally update itself (my previous version was from 2011). Luckily enough I saved a copy of the previous version "just in case". Here are my findings:
- when using the latest SILEditor to open an existing SIB file, after making some changes (like replacing a translated string with a corrected one) and saving them, the new SIB file size increased significantly (even beyond the size of the corresponding SIL) which I find really weird (after all it's a binary file, supposedly packed more efficiently than its human-readable SIL sibling)
- when converting a UTF-8 SIB file into SIL and then back, the extended characters are replaced by '?'. In fact they are being replaced while converting it into SIL. If I do the same thing using the older SILEditor, everything looks fine.
Any advice regarding these concerns would be much appreciated. If needed, I can provide you with a sample SIB containing only a few entries, and the generated SIL files using each of the two SILEditor versions I have. I know you've heard it many times before, but let me second it: we're using the localization component and the SILEditor globally for our product, currently supporting 15 languages. I assume that you realize the impact an issue like this could have on a globally used translation file.
Looking forward to hearing from you.
Regards,
- Sandor -
Some weird behavior was noticed recently when I let SILEditor finally update itself (my previous version was from 2011). Luckily enough I saved a copy of the previous version "just in case". Here are my findings:
- when using the latest SILEditor to open an existing SIB file, after making some changes (like replacing a translated string with a corrected one) and saving them, the new SIB file size increased significantly (even beyond the size of the corresponding SIL) which I find really weird (after all it's a binary file, supposedly packed more efficiently than its human-readable SIL sibling)
- when converting a UTF-8 SIB file into SIL and then back, the extended characters are replaced by '?'. In fact they are being replaced while converting it into SIL. If I do the same thing using the older SILEditor, everything looks fine.
Any advice regarding these concerns would be much appreciated. If needed, I can provide you with a sample SIB containing only a few entries, and the generated SIL files using each of the two SILEditor versions I have. I know you've heard it many times before, but let me second it: we're using the localization component and the SILEditor globally for our product, currently supporting 15 languages. I assume that you realize the impact an issue like this could have on a globally used translation file.
Looking forward to hearing from you.
Regards,
- Sandor -