The strategy files are indeed a problem for someone who wants to generate a new language. I've been asking for a while that they be checked into the CVS repository but it hasn't happened yet. As it currently stands there is no way for the general public to add new languages that require different strategy files.
Matt --- In [email protected], "Enric Hernandez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dear Graham, > > > > In fact, building the dawg is not the real problem. There's many code out > there to do his task (some of them you may know well since it's hosted in > wgp site :-)). The problem is that I'm not sure how to build other files > (like "superleaves" or "syn2" or more generally those under the directory > "data/strategy/" ) which I suppose are needed in order to have Quackle play > at its maximum level. > > > > I've already downloaded the tarfile and indeed there are some perl scripts > (in directory "new_language_generation" ) which I guess are intended to do > that. Any help on how to use them properly would be very appreciated. > > > > Regarding the digraph tiles, if Quackle has been set up in Welsh or even > Tuvan I dare to say that encoding the following tiles: "RR", "LL", "CH" > (which are considered just ONE single tile in Spanish Scrabble) won't be a > problem. My question here is whether those digraphs have UTF or unicode > codification or not (apologies if this is just naive question. Reading some > stuff about encoding is definitively on my to-do list..). Other exclusive > Spanish tiles like "ñ" do have a proper codification, but I'm not sure how > to represent the above mentioned digraphs. > > > > Kind regards! > > > > Enric Hernández > > > > > > _____ > > De: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] En nombre de > Graham Toal > Enviado el: miércoles, 02 de enero de 2008 6:44 > Para: [email protected] > Asunto: Re: [quackle] Quackle for Spanish Scrabble > > > > On Jan 1, 2008 8:21 PM, hector_klie <hector_klie@ > <mailto:hector_klie%40yahoo.com> yahoo.com> wrote: > > According to Enric, one of the main issues to adapt Quackle to play > > Spanish is the creation of the DAWG with digraph tiles. We would > > appreciate pointers in how to this. What is the current status on this? > > According to old email I read from John, this has been already done for > > Welsh. > > The source code is hosted at www.quackle.org and it appears to have > everything you > would need to add new languages and build your own dawgs. > > I just now fetched the tarfile and can see files in it with obvious names > like > "makedawg.cpp" and makeminidawg/ and new_language_generation/ > > G >
