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Aard Dictionary for Android
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Aard Format Example #83

Closed omeryavuz closed 11 years ago

omeryavuz commented 11 years ago

I want to test Aard Format. I checked http://aarddict.org/aardtools/doc/aardformat.html web page. I can see an example http://garr.dl.sourceforge.net/project/xdxf/dicts-XDXF/dictd04/comn_dictd04_wn.tar.bz2 for XDXF But I did not see any aard format example for compile progress. How can I download an simple aard format file to build using tools. Any one can share an aard file to evaluate compile progress and to understand file format clearly? How will we calculate sha1sum, sha1 sum of dictionary file content following signature and sha1 bytes ? Sum means character count in file or absolute file size?

ildar commented 11 years ago

aar is the binary file format produced by aardc from xdxf source. Could you explain more about how and why do you want to test aard format?

itkach commented 11 years ago

I'm not sure I understand what are you looking for, but many .aar files are available for download from http://aarddict.org/dictionaries . Writing .aar files is implemented in compiler.py - if you really want to know every detail source code is the place to look.

As @ildar asks above, what is it that you are trying to achieve? Aard format serves it's purpose, but I wouldn't recommend building anything on it beyond what's already built. You may want to consider a ZIM file format (http://openzim.org) which is a better designed alternative, more generic, complete and with better compression.