Hi,
While trying to edit songs in Indic text, the Edit Verse window is displaying the text with a lot of dotted circles (0x25CC). Compare the same text in Notepad in the image below. The Thai Text is (apparently) displayed correctly. Could you please look into this issue?
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Thanks for the quick reply
Is it really a display font issue. Please see font in other windows of OpenLP. It is broken only in the Edit Verse window. It looks to me like a rendering issue. I downloaded the source code and will try to see if I could throw any further light to it. In the mean time can you please check if the widget/tool that display text on Edit Verse window is any different from the tool you use in other places. Thanks in advance,
On my linux box Indic text appears correctly. So it's could be a display font issue.

I tried on another Windows machine and the text is broken there as well (This time the display font is different). So I'm inclined to believe that it's a rendering related issue there's something that can be addressed. OpenLP uses ICU5.x for rendering right? I'm looking into the code and will get back to you if I see anything interesting.Here's the code that I tried,
(or something like that). We'll have to investigate that.
PYQT_VERSION = 329216
> We were using an older version of Qt (hence why you get a missing QtWebKit), and the display bug might have been fixed in a newer version of Qt.
Aha, that explains. What would you suggest in this case? I don't know how many users you have from this part of the world, hence how important/feasible it for you to address this issue by upgrading the toolkit.
A possible workaround
Your users can edit the song in an external plain text editor and then copy and paste the songs into the song edit window. Or you can suggest other Open Lyrics editors for editing songs and then import them into OpenLP.
Btw, if you want to bundle/distribute/point some Indian (Malayalam) songs, my collection is here: https://github.com/beniza/malayalam_songbook_openlyrics
Many are, but some are still copyrighted. Although it's not a big deal in this part of the deal, I think it's better for you to include only the public domain songs in the official bundle.
I also have Public Domain Bible text (in USFM format) with me. Can OpenLP import USFM/OSIS? If not, I'll have to look for a way to convert the Bibles into the OpenLP native/supported format.
TIA,
Benjamin
I'll release a separate bundle with only Public Domain songs, that can be packaged for OpenLP. In that way you can be free of Copyright related issues.
I'll convert my USFM to OSIS and send you the files.