On 04/01/09 05:49, bill lam wrote:
> On Sun, 04 Jan 2009, Tony Mechelynck wrote:
>> Maybe someday (if I come around to it) I'll try to build a datafile by
>> Kangxi (or similar) radicals and strokes, for people who can "see" hanzi
>> and maybe even "understand" them but not "say" them. I might even
>> already have the needed data in a different format somewhere on this
>> computer.
>
> If you are interested I can send you the source file that radical for
> traditional chinese in (about 30000 characters).
Yes, why not? The Unihan database is more like 30 _million_ characters,
but of course it includes a lot of info that would be superfluous in
this case.
>
> I didn't use this plugin, but I guess it should limit the characters
> displayed in popup box in order to be useful. Anyway, for beginners,
> it is easier to just input the first and the last radical only, and
> let it display a list of characters to chose from. If it can accept
> exactly two keystroke before calling up the popup box, there should be
> no speed penalty.
>
OTOH, it might be advantageous to modify the plugin to take advantage of
Vim's ability to display a comment next to each completion (for
instance, depending on the data source, a translation or a reading for
the hanzi in question).
Best regards,
Tony.
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