libchewing 0.3.0

This feature is included in the Solaris 10 5/08 release.

Chewing input method (IM) is based on libchewing, which is an open-source library for Traditional Chinese input. libchewing is upgraded to the libchewing 0.3.0 version. libchewing 0.3.0 includes the following features:

• 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 recomputes chewing lifetime

• Implementation of the choice mechanism for symbol pairs

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