On Wednesday, August 24, 2011 04:39:31 PM ChaletPol wrote:
> Unfortunately, George, that is not presently a mnemosyne-specific
> problem.  That is a general computing problem.  While it seems like
> Google is smart enough to guess what 漢字 you are looking for based
> solely on ひらがな, most computer programs are not capable of doing this
> as far as I know.  The 漢字 can have so many different pronunciations
> that programming something to cover all of them would be a massive
> undertaking.  I suspect that a similar effort, if not even more
> intensive, would be required to make searching for characters by
> radical possible within a given program.

BTW, one of the arguments sqlite made for not including this by default is 
that the size of their binary would double :-)

Peter

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