Verse Linking in Imported TXT File

[jarcher]

I experience lots of issues in proper verse linking when attempting to import this file.

 

I cannot figure out why it occurs.

 

Discipleship Journal.txt

[Joel Brown]

What sort of issues are you experiencing?  Everything auto-linked for me just fine, except for a couple of 2 John and 3 John references, as the characters are a bit ambiguous (really should use semi-colons between books), and the numbers were treated as an extra verse in John.

[jarcher]

Thanks for taking a look!

 

Here is a screenshot example. The first reference, for example, doesn't link but as far as I can tell the Matthew reference is valid.

 

[Joel Brown]

It looks like that file was UTF8 with BOM encoded, which has some extra characters we don't support.  That explains the gibberish and the failed initial matthew link.  You can open it in any good editor (I highly recommend BBEdit) to correct its encoding to MacRoman before importing.

 

That being said, I do see some of the references being missed during this import.  We'll investigate this.  In the meantime, try making a new user tool, copy/pasting in the references, and clicking the Auto-link button.  its a bit slow, but it should get everything except the two aforementioned references.

[Fabian]

 I do see some of the references being missed during this import.  We'll investigate this.  

 I experienced this as well in my last import of a User Tool. Not on all but on some. 

[jarcher]

Weird. I've been using Sublime Text and see no unusual characters.

 

Copy / paste worked.

 

Thanks!

[Fabian]

Also with BBEdit you'll see no unusual characters. Save anyway as utf-8. Not utf-8 with BOM. <-- forbidden  Or better what Joel wrote. MacOS Roman.

Edited February 13, 2020 by Fabian