1Data files for SCIM Generic Table Input Method module
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3
4This package includes many data files for SCIM Generic Table
5Input Method module (table).
6
7the directory structure is:
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9zh/		data files for Chinese (Simplified and Traditional).
10ja/		data files for Japanese.
11ko/		data files for Korean.
12additional/	data files for some other languages, such as Russian etc.
13
14The data files will be converted to binary format and installed to
15${prefix}/share/scim/tables/. SCIM table im module will load them
16automatically.
17
18The format of table file
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20
21A table file has three part: Header, table definition and table data.
22The header must have two line, like:
23
24SCIM_Generic_Table_Phrase_Library_TEXT
25VERSION_1_0
26
27The first line is a magic line to indicate it's a table file in text format.
28The second line is the table format version, currently it's VERSION_1_0.
29
30A binary table should have a header like:
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32SCIM_Generic_Table_Phrase_Library_BINARY
33VERSION_1_0
34
35The table definition defines the attributes of of this table.
36This section must start with BEGIN_DEFINITION and end with END_DEFINITION.
37Please refer to the tables included in this package about the format.
38
39The table data section includes all data of this table.
40This section must start with BEGIN_TABLE and end with END_TABLE.
41each line in this section refer to a table entry.
42Each entry has three part separated by a white space (tab or space).
43The first part is a key string, the second is the corresponding phrase string,
44the third part is the frequency number of this entry.
45Please refer to the tables included in this package about the format.
46
47The lines started with "###" will be treated as comment and will be ignored.
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