Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: > On Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:00:50 +0200 "Marco Trevisan (Treviño)" <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> > babbled: >> Well, generally for small words there's a correction list, but it's not >> always complete and often there are words very different from the one >> I'd like to write, but not that one. So maybe it doesn't search in all >> the dictionary. I could I try that? >> However my fingers are not so great... >> If you want I can send you my dictionaries, so you'll be able to test >> them in a better way. > > hmm. is this english?i am wondering if non-ascii chars are messing it up or > not. your dictionary may be useful - i have just been going off my 98,000 or > so > entry dict from /usr/share/dict/words which seems to be big enough for me it > seems and has pretty much everything in it... for english anyway. as its used > for spellchecking i kind of assumed it'd be good enough for typing up sms's > and > emails :) at least in my tests it is listing all the completions i'd expect it > to. did you sort -f the illume dict? (non-case-sensitive sort)?
Yes it's sorted and it's an Italian dictionary (so few non-ascii chars); that's why it has so many words. Consider that an Italian dictionary has about 120000 words to be declined. So from a verb in the infinite form I can extract about 50 different words, from names and from adjectives about 3 for each. But here (like in the more common occidental languages), in most cases, only the suffix differs. Imho, a way to reduce the size would be allowing a rule to set suffix and prefix (for composed words) that would reduce the dictionary size. So, for example, in my dictionary instead of using 50 lines for each verb I would use only one per one; i.e.: Italian verb "parlare" (to talk) would be (not complete) parl{o,i,a,iamo,ate,ano,avo,avi,ava,avamo,avate,avano,ai,asti,ò,ammo, \ aste,arono,erò,erai,erà,eremo,erete,eranno,erei,eresti,erebbe, \ eremmo,ereste,erebbero,ii,iamo,iate,ino,assi,asse,assimo, \ assero,ino,ando,ante,ato,ata,ati} Italian noun "casa" (house) would be cas{a,e} Italian adjective "libero" (free [as freedom]) would be liber{a,i,o} BTW I don't know if this would improve the keyboard typo-fixing work (maybe yes if also the suffixes/[prefixes?] are sorted) Anyway, let me know I should send you the dict I've. > illume's dict is 6mb? hmm i guess the raw text there has a lot of redundancy > :) Yes and this happens because of the things shown above. And I've made only a part of the work; i guess that the final dictionary will double this size. And it won't contain any proper name (City names, Sigles...). Italian standard linux dictionary (/usr/share/dict/italian) "weights" 1,2mb but it's mostly incomplete. > i tried to keep the dictionary simple in illume but am always willing to look > at other ways to improve it. though the keyboard is not really a focus of mine > - it's something along the way so there may come a time when i go "well- you > want it better.. please.. send a patch!"... but its fresh on my plate now, so > it's active :) And this is a great thing. Since this phone without a great virtual keyboard (like the one you're doing) won't be usable/cool as it should be. Imho this is the killer tool of illume. >> Another thing I'd like to suggest you is that imho the backspace/space >> right-left/left-right dragging is too long. If you try writing using >> your thumbs you can notice that is hard deleting a word... Imho they >> should be more sensible. > > from illume's TODO file (in svn): > > * kbd needs drag for backspace/next word etc. to be shorter > > :) already there. :) well - as with accent normalising - there is a marker > that > i realise something needs to be done. Nice! :P -- Treviño's World - Life and Linux http://www.3v1n0.net/ _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community