Daniel Owens wrote: > I am working on creating dictionary modules based on the Free Vietnamese > Dictionary Project. The Vietnamese-English dictionary is working, but > some words are not in alphabetical order, and I am trying to find out > how to maintain the original alphabetization. > > I noticed this when all of the words beginning with a vowel having > diacritics/tones or beginning with a "đ" were sorted to the end of the > dictionary. The DAT file maintains the original order, which is more > accurate. It must be that the IDX file generated by imp2ld creates its > own index and alphabetizes according to it's own scheme. The entries of > each word are tagged as ThML. Here is a slightly random entry: > > $$$ác bá > <entry key="ác bá" type="main" id="n20"><b>ác bá</b><br />[noun]<br />- > Cruel landlord, village tyrant<br /></entry> > > Is there a way to keep imp2ld from changing the order of the index? I am > happy to send someone the IMP file if that helps. I pasted the CONF file > at the bottom of this message. > > Daniel You don't say what OS you use, so I'll have to be a bit general. To get the collation sequence right, you'd have to run the imp2ld program under a Vietnamese locale - if you use a European or American locale, it will use the sort order of the locale language, which will probably place non-ASCII letters after the ASCII ones.
I hope that helps... :@) -- Blessings Frank _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page
