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Re: General Purpose Dictionary Generator

From:Sylvia Sotomayor <terjemar@...>
Date:Monday, October 30, 2006, 1:30
On 10/29/06, David J. Peterson <dedalvs@...> wrote:
> Hey, I'm not sure if this is applicable, or the right place to ask > the question, but I'll go ahead and ask it anyway. > > I modified the whole PHP for Kalusa to produce dictionaries > for several of my languages, one of which can be found here: > > http://dedalvs.free.fr/zhyler/dictionary/index.php > > It doesn't allow for definitions, though, so I was hoping this > new dictionary could augment it. One thing, though, is that > I can't get it to alphabetize correctly. So, if you go here: > > http://dedalvs.free.fr/zhyler/dictionary/lexicon.php > > You see that words are arranged by unicode, apparently. I > don't know of a way to fix it so that I can assign what gets put > where as far as alphabetization goes. >
Heh. I handle alphabetization by adding a field in my database table. It uses a 2 digit number per letter. I have 39 letters in the Kelen alphabet, and most words are 7 letters or less, so I have a 14 digit number for each word, and that is what I sort on. Make sense? -S -- Sylvia Sotomayor terjemar@gmail.com www.terjemar.net

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