Chinese Pinyin Input

[kayro]

The selection that I get when I type in characters via Chinese Pinyin input is rather limited.

For example, I cannot type in the following word:

yifu
逸夫

Any way to increase the number of character suggestions that show up?

[theanes]

Second that. We need more full chinese dictionary db. Present one is too small, lacking a lot of words. Not sure where the author got the current db, but I suggest look at "Google Pinyin" input has. Not sure about it's license though..

[cyril]

Do you have other examples? The Chinese language pack IS based on Google Pinyin, so it's a bit surprising

[theanes]

Ah.. I was just inferring that from the sizes of binary databases in your .apk and Google's. Your's "zh_dic.mp3" is ~ 1.02Mb, and Google's "dict_pinyin.dat" is roughly 1.45MB.. But I guess it's my bad, not knowing exact specifics of development, I shouldn't say..
Looking deeper into it, your application seems to restrict the number of chinese character suggestions to only 12. While others don't restrict it with any defined ( well, maybe they do, but with more slack ) number. Seems like the problem lies into this behavior..?

[theanes]

And on a sidenote, if one will look up a dictionary, the word "yi" for example, may have correspond up to a hundred different characters (mileage may vary), so only 12 choices given is not what one looking for exactly..

[cyril]

And on a sidenote, if one will look up a dictionary, the word "yi" for example, may have correspond up to a hundred different characters (mileage may vary), so only 12 choices given is not what one looking for exactly..

I will check why this happens, it's probably one line of code to change...

[cyril]

Indeed this was really a stupid problem.... Everything IS in the dictionary but suggestions were truncated to 12 on purpose... I changed the limit to 500, there are now many many more suggestions!

You can try this in the latest beta

[theanes]

Yep, works like a charm.
非常感谢.