Hi, I'm working on a Swedish dictionary and keyboard for Illume, but I'm having some trouble with sorting of utf8 chars in the dictionary. I can't seem to get the sorting right. Looking at the code, Illume sorts the dictionary after first normalizing the strings according to the internal normalization table. Is there any way to reproduce this sorting with the sort command? I've tried with a few different locales (C, en_US.utf8) which all make the unix sort command work differently. But no matter what I try words don't show up correctly.
Another issue I found is that the built in normalization table is not very good for typing Swedish text. On a standard Swedish qwerty layout, we have three additional letters (å, ä and ö). These are used very frequently in Swedish and there are many common words that have different meanings if spellt with a, å or ä (for example har, här and hår are all very common words). But in Illume these are all normalized to a. Writing Swedish with a US qwerty layout and then having to select aåä manually after the dictionary lookup is a pain, since many common words will have to be selected from the lookup list each time. Instead, what you want is a Swedish qwerty layout (which is very simple to implement as a .kbd file), and not normalize åäö for the Swedish dictionary lookup. So the normalization table would really need to be configurable, either as a part of the dictionary or the .kbd file. I suppose this problem exists for other languages as well. If I were to work on such a change, what would be the best approach? Best regards, Olof Sjobergh _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
