libchewing 0.3.0

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 the following:

• Incompatibility with API/ABI.

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

• Includes the libchewing-data subproject.

• Zuin fixes and symbol improvements.

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

• Improved calculation 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 that re-computes 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.