libchewing 0.3.4 Released

2012-12-31

libchewing 0.3.4 Released: 2012-12-31

What’s New in libchewing 0.3.4

Improve the description of libchewing API
- Simplified examples to illustrate the usage are added
Revise libchewing API. Check the documentation for details
Support THL (Taiwan Huayu Luomapinyin) and MPS2 Pinyin keyboard layout
Reimplementation of unit test framework. No external ‘check’ package is required
Fix several phrase errors
- Add exceptional phrase as well
Improved developer and user guide
Introduce CMake based build system, which is convenient to MS-Windows based environments.
Add –enable-gcov to enable gcov coverage
Fix possible strncat() overflow
Consistent checks for bopomofo sequence internally
Handle incomplete bopomofo with space key properly
Internal structure refactoring
Read hash path from CHEWING_PATH environment variable
Make libchewing thread-safe
Fix IM crash by changing default candidate per page to 10
Fix the detection of ncursesw
Fix the usage of autotools
Update and tune symbols
Fix valgrind warning
Fix several compilation warnings
Fix GCC visibility availability for Darwin specific PIC code
Fix hash table initialization and its memory leakage
Support building with mingw32 toolchain
Fix GNU Hurd build
Fix Microsoft VC build
Fix Windows 64-bit build
Fix mingw32/64 + WINE build
Successful stories:
- GCIN supports experimental Chewing IM since version 1.6.4
- HIME supports Chewing IM
- UCIMF supports Chewing IM
- Fcitx supports Chewing IM
- mozc (IM framework maintained by Google) provides Chewing support
- JMCCE (reworked version) supports libchewing

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