"Jean Christophe ANDR�" wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> In the page at http://metalab.unc.edu/kevina/aspell/international/
> you wrote : "The reason for this is that almost all languages which
> do not fit within an 8-bit character set can not be spell checked in
> the traditional fashion. When I expand Aspell to support spell
> checking these languages I will also expand Aspell to work with wide
> characters. However for right now this brings an extra level of
> complexity that I don't want to deal with. If any of my assumptions
> are wrong please let me know."
>
> I would like to comment this : you could support Unicode just by now
> without lot of code rewriting (asuming your code is clean, but I bet
> it is, isn't it ? ;)). Just use int (short is enougth in fact)
> instead of char to store characters. Your spelling functions should
> not have to change because of this modification. On the other side
> you will be ready to accept Unicode input by transcoding it from
> one charset to the Unicode one.
>
> If you want more information about Unicode, feel free to ask me.
> Best regards, Progfou.
I do know about unicode. Yes I can fairly easy convert my characters to
32 bit ints as my code is clean. However, then how should I store the
word lists in memory? As a string of ints. Now that is using up 4
times more memory than charters would and for languages that can fit
within an 8-bit character that is, in my view, a gross waste of memory.
So the solution is to work with the charters as 32 bit ints than convert
it to a shorter representation when storing them in memory. Now than
can
lead to an inefficiency. I could also use short ints however that may
not be good enough to hold all of future versions of unicode and it has
the same problems.
These where the issues I was talking about.
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