Hakka/Hokkien support
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Yes, we switched to doing all that built-in because we realized it was going to be next to impossible for non-technical people to access Hokkien/Hakka dictionaries if they had to configure everything. It's still a little basic, but getting all of that hooked up took a TON of work and now that that's in it's quite easy for us to now make refinements as far as dialects / display / search / etc as we get more feedback; it's also easy for us to add other topolects/dialects etc going forward.
Anyway, in the current version all you should have to do is create a user dictionary and add a Hakka or Hokkien reading field; that should automatically create a corresponding flashcard field and search profile and give you options for Hokkien and Hakka in many of the places you can currently only pick Mandarin or Cantonese. The display conversion is pretty limited - basically we were trying to make sure the internal encoding was something we could support without too much difficulty alongside Mandarin and Cantonese, i.e. a string of letters followed by one or more tone numbers, so for Hokkien it will add Tâi-lô diacritics but for Hakka it just turns whatever numbers are at the end of the syllable into superscripts (but the search engine will allow/match more than one tone at the end of a string of Hakka) and doesn't yet attempt to convert them into the correct tone mark depending on which dialect they're in.
Eventually we'd like to pick a single internal reading system to standardize around and convert from so that you can mix multiple dictionaries and have them all get along and use any dictionary with your preferred system; however, I understand the politics of that are a bit fraught.
Anyway, in the current version all you should have to do is create a user dictionary and add a Hakka or Hokkien reading field; that should automatically create a corresponding flashcard field and search profile and give you options for Hokkien and Hakka in many of the places you can currently only pick Mandarin or Cantonese. The display conversion is pretty limited - basically we were trying to make sure the internal encoding was something we could support without too much difficulty alongside Mandarin and Cantonese, i.e. a string of letters followed by one or more tone numbers, so for Hokkien it will add Tâi-lô diacritics but for Hakka it just turns whatever numbers are at the end of the syllable into superscripts (but the search engine will allow/match more than one tone at the end of a string of Hakka) and doesn't yet attempt to convert them into the correct tone mark depending on which dialect they're in.
Eventually we'd like to pick a single internal reading system to standardize around and convert from so that you can mix multiple dictionaries and have them all get along and use any dictionary with your preferred system; however, I understand the politics of that are a bit fraught.
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