[developers] ACE input for non-English Text (and general)

[Chris Curtis]

I did start tinkering with a Mac-native LUI after last year's DELPH-IN, but since I didn't need it for my work it's not gotten any cycles from me recently. Still in the queue, though.

--chris

> On Aug 2, 2017, at 6:36 PM, Woodley Packard <sweaglesw at sweaglesw.org> wrote:
> 
> I believe LUI handles unicode properly on Linux.  There are many things wrong with LUI on Mac, I will be the first to agree.
> 
> -Woodley
> 
>> On 08/02/2017 02:58 PM, David Inman wrote:
>> Ah, so it looks like the problem is with the LUI display and it was in fact
>> unrelated. I am somewhat relieved. Thank you!
>> 
>> Although it does seem like it would be nice for LUI to handle full Unicode.
>> 
>> On Wed, Aug 2, 2017 at 2:52 PM, Woodley Packard <sweaglesw at sweaglesw.org>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi David,
>>> 
>>> Yes, ACE should be able to handle that.  I wonder whether the string you
>>> see in the parse chart might be a red herring, i.e. whether there is an
>>> unrelated problem in rendering the string back out again via LUI on the
>>> Mac.  If you add -vv to the ACE command-line, the first line of the output
>>> will show the input sentence, tokenized (and with /(null)? appended to each
>>> word, probably).  Can you confirm that this is corrupt?
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> Woodley
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On 08/02/2017 02:41 PM, David Inman wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> This is probably directed to Woodley,
>>>> 
>>>> I am trying to run ACE locally on my Mac to parse Nuuchahnulth. However I
>>>> am running into the same problem I am currently having on Ubuntu, which is
>>>> that it cannot handle my special characters in interactive mode (in Ubuntu
>>>> I have the somewhat worse problem of available keyboards). I load my
>>>> grammar in interactive mode, and then type in:
>>>> 
>>>> haʔuk
>>>> 
>>>> It does not parse.
>>>> 
>>>> I type :c for the parse chart, and the parse chart believes it has read
>>>> in :
>>>> 
>>>> HA îuk
>>>> 
>>>> which of course does not exist in the lexicon.
>>>> 
>>>> I know that ACE is used for Japanese and other languages, and OSX is
>>>> Unicode throughout: is there anything I need to do so that I can input my
>>>> alphabet?
>>>> 
>>>> 
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