What's New in libchewing 0.3.3 --------------------------------------------------------- * Fix memory access violation. * Improved Python binding. * Merged with libchewing-data project. (r455) * Improved random key stroke tester. * Fix the handling of phonetic symbols in Hsu's keyboard. * Fix unexpected candidate disorder when doing symbol choice. * Revised phrase choice from rearward logic. * Fix cross compilation. * Improved shell script to merge changes form libchewing-data. * Successful stories: . Google ChromeOS provides built-in Chewing IM support . MeeGo platform provides built-in Chewing IM support What's New in libchewing 0.3.2 --------------------------------------------------------- * Add gcc visibility support to hide private APIs. * APIs and Headers refactoring. * Doxygen-friendly API documentation. * New binary data manipulation approach to dramatically reduce storage usage and loading time via memory mapping. (enabled by default) * New word segmentation method based on mmseg. * Improved auto-learn new phrases method. * Improved test suite and added simple benchmark program. * Option to indicate the behavior for phrase choice to be rearward or not. * New APIs to enumerate supported keyboard types. * Repair improper memory access. * API united in Win32 and UNIX world. * Initial Pythin binding support. * Merged with libchewing-data project. (r342) * Canonical debugging messages. * Successful stories: . OpenBSD porting . ibus-chewing : chewing engine for ibus input method framework. . UIM-chewing leveraging libchewing 0.3.x development branch. What's New in libchewing 0.3.1 ---------------------------------------------------------- * New keyboard layout DACHEN_CP26. * Add key '`' to open symbol table. * Erase candidate and reset its length when 'Esc' key is handled. * Closes candidate window when user pressed 'Up' key. * Doing select at the end of edit buffer works on the last phrase (interval). * Improved reminding message text. * Sync with libchewingdata project. * A new HanYu-PinYin mapping table * More robust behavior when IM crashes. * Allow '#' comment and blank line in tsi.src. * Fix chewing switch between Full/Half mode and cursor moves one space in gedit. * Fix when list available phrases to choice, user's own phrases are not included. * Release PgUp/PgDn key event to running applications. * Fix portability issues on FreeBSD. * Fix incorrect initialization. * Fix pinyin key order, put "shun" before "shuo". * Fix various potenital boffer overflow bugs. * Fix various memory leaks. * chewing_set_PinYinMethod to support multiple PinYin methods. * chewing_handle_CtrlOption was removed. * New structure SymbolEntry. * Rename selectAreaLen to candPerPage. * Added bEasySymbolInput. 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. . New Win32-Chewing subproject to provide efficient input method solution on Microsoft Windows platforms. What's New in libchewing 0.2.7 ---------------------------------------------------------- * Fix the keyboard type state changing bug. * Add new function to specify the space as the selection key. * Improved debug messages. * Provide cutomized user-defined PinYin table support. * Add termination mechanism. * Successful stories: . Chewing has its Win32 porting (MS-IME) via OVIME (the Win32 port of OpenVanilla Input Method Framework). What's New in libchewing 0.2.6 ---------------------------------------------------------- * Experimental feature -- HanYu PinYing Keyboard layout. * Proper $HOME env handling. * SegFault workaround after libtabe's tsi.src merge. * Add the facility to input symbols. * Successful stories: . Chewing becomes one of the built-in input methods in Sun Java Desktop System (JDS). What's New in libchewing 0.2.5 ---------------------------------------------------------- * Merge SpaceChewing's frequency tweaking from zonble. * Minor fixes for building process and zuin core. * Successful stories: . IIIMF-chewing . SCIM-chewing . OpenVanilla Input Method Framework for MacOS X What's New in libchewing 0.2.4 ---------------------------------------------------------- * Merge from SpaceChewing: . Dvorak Hsu keyboard layout. . Hanin style support. * Directly use tsi.src from libtabe. . No longer maintain separate tsi.src. * Fix the word selection bug. * Fix phonetic index in Hsu keyboard, and do fuzzy "g e" to "j e" convertion. * Provide pkg-config and RPM spec. * Allow users to specify forward/backward phrase addition. * Initial Win32 support. What's New in libchewing 0.2.3 ---------------------------------------------------------- * Fix candidate phrase choice bug. * Built-in debugging routines. * Test suite & sample implementation. * Merge the enhancements from SpaceChewing, such as space key selection, Eten special symbol input, and MacOSX awared information. * Fix broken encoding in sort_dic utility. * Doxygen documentation support. * Add Dvorak keyboard support.