[sword-devel] Chinese Bible search program  David Burry sword-
devel@crosswire.org Tue, 12 Dec 2000 18:48:20 -0800  Hi Joel.
I'm a white American who spent 4 years in mainland China
studying Chinese and teaching English among other "nefarious"
religious activities ;o)  I have had a great interest in
programming since I was 12 years old and now work as a Senior
Web Software Developer for Adobe Systems in California.  I too
have started an independent (non crosswire) Bible reading and
searching program written in Perl, using Berkley DB for the
indexing.  You can see a mostly-functional web-based front end
example of it at http://beaver.dburry.com/cgi-perl/bible
Actually it's fully functional except some planned search
operators (and parenthesis) aren't yet supported and there are
some minor encoding/charset problems for non-English languages I
haven't yet taken the time to fix (though I've made great
strides in understanding them)  ;o)  I am planning on putting
Chinese language search capability into it as wel