Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: > On Wed, 27 Aug 2008 23:12:59 +0200 "Marco Trevisan (Treviño)" <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> > babbled: >> 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} > > yup yup. don't worry - i understand why :) i speak several langauges myself > (not italian - but i did study latin, and speak french, german, english, > japanese, some usable level of portuguese). i definitely get the language > issues - for both european and asian languages :) yes. the above would reduce > dictionary size. it would make parsing it much harder.
I suspected this :/. I did hoped to be wrong... >> Anyway, let me know I should send you the dict I've. > > it's italian - right? Yes, it's an Italian dict. >> Italian standard linux dictionary (/usr/share/dict/italian) "weights" >> 1,2mb but it's mostly incomplete. > > aaah. ok. i guess that's not great quality then :) No at all... >> 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. > > thanks :) though really.. there is much more to illume :) Yes, the keyboard is not illume (that is a cool wm for mobiles however) but its keyboard makes it unique! > hehehe - i just haven't done it. that's all. accent char normalising is easy: > > ñ -> n > é -> e > ö -> o > > etc. - just strip any accent (and convert to lower case). what i was wondering > was: > > æ -> ? > ß -> ? (maybe s?) Yeah... They should be transformed in two chars, in fact ("ae" and "ss"). Can't this been supported? Considering them as two inputs! -- 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