Re: dictionaries: LE vs BE


Subject: Re: dictionaries: LE vs BE
From: Hubert Figuiere (hfiguiere@teaser.fr)
Date: Mon Nov 12 2001 - 04:59:48 CST


According to F J Franklin <F.J.Franklin@sheffield.ac.uk>:
> There are 22 little-endian hash files in abispell but only 3 big-endian.

abispell.tar.gz almost has the same set.

> (1) How easy is it to convert between the two formats?

Need to regenerate .hash files

> (2) Why can't it be done at run-time?

In an ideal world, abispell package would only contain base files and a
program to generate the .hash files.

> In addition, on darwin the wrong (i.e., LE) hash file is installed. Is
> this true of builds on all big-endian architectures?

There is bug regarding the problem on Linux PPC too.
I haven't had the time to investigate it yet.

Hub



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