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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Re: Conversion script for German-English and Spanish-German dictionariesRe: Conversion script for German-English and Spanish-German dictionaries
From: Manuel Dejonghe <manuel_at_dejonghe.de>
Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2006 20:54:57 +0200 Hi, sounds cool. Let me answer the questions where I can: On 6/4/06, Zeno Gantner <zeno.gantner_at_web.de> wrote: > 1. http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/RockboxDictionary says all words should > be lower case. I have added a command line parameter call --lowercase to accomplish > this (Be sure to run the program in an environment where a suitable locale is set). > I ask myself, however, whether this is really necessary. Isn't it possible to display > the words as they should be displayed, and to have a case insensitive search? Case insensitive search is ususally MUCH more work. It may be related to your second question. > 2. The same page says the file must be sorted alphabetically. What is the exact sort > ordering that is expected? There are several possibilities, e.g. proper alphanumerical > ordering vs. ordering by ASCII value of the characters. With not having looked at the code, I suppose it's the strcmp()-ordering, so ascii-value-based. That means ABC...abc where the request to have it in lowercase gets clear. ~lImbus Received on 2006-06-06 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |