What else would you like for free?  Perhaps a nice donation to the save the 
Quackle fund would be in order.

--- On Mon, 5/3/10, sapphirebrand <[email protected]> wrote:

From: sapphirebrand <[email protected]>
Subject: [quackle] Re: Catalan alphabet and dictionary
To: [email protected]
Date: Monday, May 3, 2010, 9:31 AM







 



  


    
      
      
      --- In quac...@yahoogroups .com, Joan Montané <j...@...> wrote:



> It's really ugly to play with these tiles changed, so we request

> support for digraphs tiles. There are at least three languages using

> them: Catalan, Spanish and Welsh.

> 



Multi-byte character support is inefficient in dawg or gaddag data

structures, so I recommend using only single characters. After all,

Scrabble alphabets all have fewer than 32 symbols, so even 5 bits is enough.



Scrabble rules generally allow words containing digraphs to be

spelled using either the digraph or using consecutive letters. So

add both spellings to the dawg.



Maven uses 8 bits for the letter field in the dawg. This is a 

lowercase letter, which occupies ASCII range from 97 to 122.

Digraphs get the symbols from 123 and up.



For display, you can insert a mapping layer from dawg character to 

display character. It is much easier to insert digraph support

there than in the dawg.



Best,

Sapphire Brand





    
     

    
    


 



  



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