hdc doesn't have a def for this word just examples
3.0 New Dictionary Bug Report / Feedback Thread
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hdc doesn't have a def for this word just examples
And will 3.01 also link HYDCD entries following 犹，as in attached screenshot?
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BrianTung
秀才
This may not be a bug, I'm not sure, but perhaps you can explain what some of the odd characters in the 60-year-cycle entries mean. E.g., 甲寅 is defined as "51st year Ǎ of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1974 or 2034." What is that 'Ǎ' mean there?
There are similar characters in some of the entries, such as for 戊寅, whereas for others, like 庚寅, it's a letter-digit combination (G3, in this particular case). Can you explain?
There are similar characters in some of the entries, such as for 戊寅, whereas for others, like 庚寅, it's a letter-digit combination (G3, in this particular case). Can you explain?
BrianTung
秀才
Actually, I wondered at first if some of the letter-digit codes were mistakenly being treated as ISO-8859-1 codes, but it turns out that A-with-caron isn't in ISO-8859-1, so that probably isn't the explanation. (Although, now that I think of it, could it be something similar, but with another code sequence?)
goldyn chyld
状元
I noticed that KEY often lists duplicate entries with variant characters (e.g. 裡/裏, 為/爲, etc.). Any chance those duplicates could be merged into one entry one to reduce the clutter when you perform a search?
Possibly, but it'll require some manual intervention on our part since I don't believe there's any data about that in KEY's own database that we can mine.
hdc: 罢 - pinyin: b?
ABC is more confused than I am
nwp:
Anchovy
鱼是鱼
should be: 鯷鱼
(Not sure how 鯷 became 鱼是 but 鱼是鱼 sounds pretty deep )
Anchovy
鱼是鱼
should be: 鯷鱼
(Not sure how 鯷 became 鱼是 but 鱼是鱼 sounds pretty deep )
For 玉石眼 there are some ABC editors' notes that suggest they're still trying to sort it out:
鱼是鱼 is a relic of character set conversion, I think - not in GB-2312 and a common tactic in those cases is to replace the character with two different ones. Usually enclosed in parentheses, though - definitely pre-dates us since we'd already switched to Unicode by the time we were adapting NWP.
鱼是鱼 is a relic of character set conversion, I think - not in GB-2312 and a common tactic in those cases is to replace the character with two different ones. Usually enclosed in parentheses, though - definitely pre-dates us since we'd already switched to Unicode by the time we were adapting NWP.
goldyn chyld
状元
goldyn chyld
状元
There are quite a few other bugs in HDC similar to the one I posted above. Just type each letter of the keyboard separately and almost every one of them returns some of the buggy entries. (the easiest way for them to show up on top is to make the search results display entries by tone).
@goldyn chyld - yeah, probably a good thing we called it an 'experimental version' for now 
@gato - that is an odd one, yeah. Thanks.
@gato - that is an odd one, yeah. Thanks.