[jsword-devel] [sword-devel] Replacement Lucene Analyzer for Japanese

[Martin Denham]

I can't answer any of Chris' questions but can comment on the initial
Japanese issue.

JSword uses SmartCN Lucene Analyzer for Japanese and Chinese which works
fine on pcs, so you could say that JSword doesn't need to change anything
at all as it already supports search for Chinese and Japanese.  However,
SmartCN requires too many resources to run it on a mobile phone and will
either crash or take about ages to do anything.

And Bible replaced SmartCN with mmseg4j for Chinese searches but I don't
think (I can't read the Chinese documentation)  mmseg4j supports Japanese,
so I disabled search when displaying Japanese modules.  AB does not have a
lot of Japanese users and this is not a frequently requested function but
it would be good to extend AB support to allow Search in Japanese modules.

Ideally, as far as AB is concerned, it would be good if JSword discontinued
use of SmartCN, but that might not be possible.

Martin

On 12 February 2013 15:15, Chris Burrell <chris at burrell.me.uk> wrote:

> So on the JSword front, it would be good to move up to Lucene 4 at some
> stage. Are we saying this will need more work than just a simple upgrade?
>
> Also, why do we have our custom language converters. Lucene seems to have
> most of the ones we're using, and we seem to simply wrap around the Filters
> in the library?
>
> Chris
>
>
> On 12 February 2013 15:12, DM Smith <dmsmith at crosswire.org> wrote:
>
>> Reposting to JSword-devel.
>>
>> On Feb 12, 2013, at 6:47 AM, David Haslam  wrote:
>>
>> > Some languages, like Japanese and Chinese, are configured in JSword to
>> use
>> > the SmartCN Lucene Analyzer.
>> >
>> > SmartCN contains a massive dictionary which is too large for most
>> mobiles.
>> >
>> > We don't package SmartCN with And Bible so somebody needs to do some
>> work to
>> > find a replacement Lucene Analyzer for Japanese.
>> >
>> > cf. For Chinese we now use mmseg4j.
>> >
>> > David (on behalf of Martin)
>> >
>> > https://code.google.com/p/and-bible/issues/detail?id=160
>> >
>> >
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