Hi all, Today I worked on allowing Quackle to be played with arbitrary unicode-enabled alphabets. First I made a very small Korean word list and then took the 30 most frequent hangul characters and made up a high-scoring tile distribution. Next I set Quackle to play on it and here is the result:
http://web.mit.edu/~jasonkb/www/korean_quackle/korean_quackle.png Quackle can indeed simulate Korean Scrabble positions. * The small word list (the effective lexicon is even smaller because most of these words include hangul characters that aren't in the tile distribution): http://web.mit.edu/~jasonkb/www/korean_quackle/korean_words * The data file that tells Quackle what our Korean alphabet is: http://web.mit.edu/~jasonkb/www/korean_quackle/korean.quackle_alphabet * I read/write enough Korean to know that many of the words in the lexicon I made are gibberish, the tile distribution is hugely inadequate^, and as it stands this game doesn't look like much fun :-) But I will improve it! And also create Japanese and Chinese Scrabbles. Thanks, cheers, --Jason ^ Much of the inadequacy is due to a 30-letter maximum length of a Quackle alphabet. But we'll raise that limit soon.
