libchewing 0.3.0

This language support enhancement is new in the Developer 9/07 release.

Chewing input method (IM) is based on libchewing which is an open source library for Traditional Chinese input. libchewing has been upgraded to the libchewing 0.3.0 version. Some of the features of the new version include:

• Incompatibility with API/ABI.

• UTF-8 based language engine core for common Unicode environment.

• UTF-8 based language engine core for common Unicode environment.

• UTF-8 based language engine core for common Unicode environment.

• Zuin fixes and symbol improvements.

• Some fixed internal memory management bugs and leaks.

• New binary-form of user hash data to speed up loading and solving hash data corruption.

• Better calculating of internal tree and phone constants.

• Revised tsi.src for richer phrases and avoiding crashes.

• Merge phone and phrase from CNS11643.

• Improved Han-Yu PinYin to use table-lookup implementation.

• Experimental frequency-evaluation which recomputes chewing lifetime.

• Implementation of the choice mechanism for symbol pairs.

• Experimental memory-mapping based binary data handling to speed up data loading.

For further information, see the International Language Environments Guide.