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wyndwarrior / iSwipe

First gesture-based keyboard for iOS. Implements a dictionary prediction algorithm to match input with words.
GNU General Public License v3.0
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uses always english dictionary #1

Open disaster123 opened 13 years ago

disaster123 commented 13 years ago

Great tool but in uses always an english dictionary. It should use the iphone internal language bases dictionary.

ridn commented 13 years ago

that's because it currently only has an english dictionary

disaster123 commented 13 years ago

yep that's why i suggested that it should use the internal iphone dict - which is always in the language the user uses.

fedorr commented 13 years ago

Have you seen the dictionary files. They are set up completely deferently then the iPhone's native dictionaries. I created a Dutch version of the dictionary files.

ndbroadbent commented 13 years ago

I totally agree that something needs to be done about the dictionaries. The word lists you are packaging at /var/mobile/Library/Wynd/Swype are absolutely awful, and they contain many bizarre words that will never be used by anybody. To prove my point, here's a short list of words extracted from dictionary-2-8.txt:

chumawi, chytroi, coenuri, colleri, colossi, coracii, cosmati, crocuci, cypseli, cabiri, calami, canari, canchi, cancri, canthi, caribi, cariri, caroli, cauqui, cestoi, chandi, chatti, chichi, chilli, chorai, chorti, cimbri, clypei, coloni, congii, cuculi, cumuli, curari, cacti, campi

Seriously, the only words anyone would ever use (or recognize!) on that list are chilli and cacti.

So firstly, please let's source a more appropriate dictionary. It will not only provide a better user experience, but will also speed up the matching algorithm a lot.

Secondly, it would be great to handle the dynamic word list at /private/var/mobile/Library/Keyboard/dynamic-text.dat. This contains all of the user's personal spelling corrections, and we should provide a way to add words to this list via iSwipe. It would also be useful to import contact names from /private/var/mobile/Library/AddressBook/AddressBook.sqlitedb, and I would like to see a word list for the books of the Bible.

disaster123 commented 13 years ago

Why not just use the internal iphone word list?

ndbroadbent commented 13 years ago

if you know where it lives, that would be a good idea too.

On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 2:02 PM, disaster123 < reply@reply.github.com>wrote:

Why not just use the internal iphone word list?

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