Re: [Eliot-general] error message in compdic - scrabble for bambara / bamana

[jjmeric]

Hola!

my grand-mother tongue is catala but I cannot speak or write, even less play scrabble ! what a pity!
Perdoni!

you are right, the problem, and many others ;-) was in mots.txt
All solved now.

I could play scrabble in bamana with Eliot yesterday late.
BUT : some word can be played by Eliot, but if I try to play the same word, my word is refused.
simple words like "mana" which does not involved special bamabara characters.
Others work... not clear.

My "lettres.txt" characters are all in lower case. Could this be an issue ? When I play, everything is in capital letters.
However, I discovered a problem in the UTF-8 encoding : I switched editors to be able to sort and eliminate duplicates automatically (PSPAD), and now the UTF-8 encoding is not identified by the other word processor (Libre Office). I need to clarify this before I can complain at all !!!

More news later. Back to "work".

Gràcies
Jean-Jacques Coll y Meric
French amateur scrabble player
Bamanan scrabbledilanbaga.

Le 24/09/2013 23:02, Joan Montané a écrit :

Hi,

I'm not Eliot developer, but years ago I deal with some encoding problems. Some tips:

mots.txt must contain a single word by line, utf8 encoded.

All chars in mots.txt must be "playable", i.e., a tile/char must be defined in lettres.txt

May be the error refeers to mots.txt file, can you write the 5th line of mots.txt?

Yours,

Joan Montané

Catalan Scrabble Player

2013/9/24 jjmeric <address@hidden>

(in French further down) - en français plus bas

Bambara (or bamanakan) is a language of West Africa.
I'd love to promote the use of this scrabble game.
This language has an alphabet that include 4 characters which require Unicode UTF-8 encoding.

I stumble across an error message when trying to load the letters file "lettres.txt" in compdic :

compdic -d "Nom du dictionnaire" -i mots.txt -l lettres.txt -o bamanakan.dawg
Exception caught: Erreur sur la ligne 5, colonne 7: Header::getCodeFromChar : Pas de code pour la lettre ' ' (val=32)

Here is the start of the list in the UTF-8 encoded text file :
a  1 15 1 0
b  1  5 0 1
c  8  1 0 1
d  3  2 0 1
e  1  6 1 0
ɛ  1  6 1 0

not sure the problem is on the "ɛ" character (line 6 to me).
Thanks for help. I can of course send the file(s) if required.

I ni ce, i ni baraji (in bambara)
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French :
Le bambara (bamanakan) est une langue d'Afrique de l'Ouest (Mali, Côte d'Ivoire, Burkina-Faso, Guinée, est du Sénégal).
J'aimerais bien promouvoir l'utilisation du jeu de scrabble (à des fins éducatives).
Dans l'alphabet du bambara, 4 lettres spéciales qui nécessitent l'utilisation d'un codage Unicode UTF-8.

J'ai un message d'erreur à ma première utilisation de compdic, à propos de mon fichier lettres.txt :

compdic -d "Nom du dictionnaire" -i mots.txt -l lettres.txt -o bamanakan.dawg
Exception caught: Erreur sur la ligne 5, colonne 7: Header::getCodeFromChar : Pas de code pour la lettre ' ' (val=32)

Voilà le début du fichier (encodé UTF-8) :
a  1 15 1 0
b  1  5 0 1
c  8  1 0 1
d  3  2 0 1
e  1  6 1 0
ɛ  1  6 1 0

Je ne suis pas sûr que le problème vienne bien de la lettre "ɛ" character (ligne 6 selon moi!).

Merci pour votre aide !
I ni ce, i ni baraji (en bambara)