On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 01:06:45PM +1100, Roger So wrote: > On Fri, 2002-03-22 at 08:10, Anthony Fok wrote: > > > Heh. Still better than the giant "switch ... case ... case ..." block > > > that I first thought of. :) > > Hehe, I simply inherited the "from_ucs4_idx" index table that was > > originally in big5hkscs.c. Did you wrote that, or Ulrich did? :-) > Upon closer examination, I think Ulrich did. In the CVS log he said > "regenerated from authoritative source" (or something like that).
Yes, Ulrich is really good at that and other arts. Kudos to him. :-) > I think 11 tries is about right, but I'm not too sure. (I did the Algo > course a long time ago, or it seems like a long time ago...) I can > never design perfect hash functions, so I always use binary search > instead, but that's just me. :) Perhaps when I return home tonight I'll > dig out my copy of TAOCP to find out... You mean _The_ Art of Computer Programming by Donald Knuth? (Drool... :-) > BTW GB 18030 has more parts than Big5-HKSCS that can be algorithmically > converted to UCS-4, so it's normal to have it smaller than > BIG5HKSCS.so. Still, this _is_ fun stuff. :p Yes, fun stuff, but time-consuming too. I'd better start on other tasks, or I'm gonna get into trouble. I'll leave the "fun stuff" for the holidays. ;-) Anthony -- Anthony Fok Tung-Ling ThizLinux Laboratory <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.thizlinux.com/ Debian Chinese Project <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.debian.org/intl/zh/ Come visit Our Lady of Victory Camp! http://www.olvc.ab.ca/ _______________________________________________ I18n mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/i18n
