Re: General Purpose Dictionary Generator

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?

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