libchewing 0.3.0 版釋出
libchewing 0.3.0 版釋出，這是新的發展系列，可下載使用，並請提供 feedback 與 bug-report。
What’s New in libchewing 0.3.0
- This is a new development branch differing a lot from 0.2.x series, and breaks API/ABI for new features.
- UTF-8 based language engine core for common Unicode environment.
- Porting layer for POSIX/Unix-like and Win32 to reduce the redundant porting process.
- New API design for better consistency.
- Merge the efforts from libchewing-data subproject, which means various phrases have been reviewed and corrected.
- Zuin fixes and symbol improvements.
- Support key ‘j’ / ‘k’ for paging in selection mode.
- Fix some internal memory management bugs and leaks.
- Improved internal test suite.
- New binary-form of user hash data to speed up loading and solve hash data corruption.
- Better calculating of internal tree and phone constants.
- Revised tsi.src for richer phrases and avoiding crashes.
- Merge phone and phrase from CNS11643.
- Reduce the amount for the expose for internal symbols.
- Improved Han-Yu PinYin to use table-lookup implementation.
- Experimental frequency-evaluation. (re-compute chewing lifetime)
- Implement the choice mechanism for pair symbols.
- Improved Tab handling to allow the switching over different frequency orders of candidated phrases.
- New auxiliary module for simpler API uses.
- Experimental memory-mapping based binary data handling to speed up data loading.
- Successful stories:
- Sun Solaris 10 U2 and 11 will provide built-in Chewing IM support.
- OXIM input method suite from OpenDesktop/OSSI provides Chewing support as its default input method.