tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1673789523519845637.post1277091876204188779..comments2024-03-22T12:44:09.214-04:00Comments on Medieval Sundries: Neural-Network Generated SCA Names and DevicesAlec Storyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00060249149152911264noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1673789523519845637.post-30682198882326701212017-08-01T22:55:53.792-04:002017-08-01T22:55:53.792-04:00I understand the legacy issue, and that format sta...I understand the legacy issue, and that format stability is important - I'm a software engineer by trade and see those issues all the time. Doesn't mean I'm not going to snark about it :)<br /><br />Unfortunately, using Latin-1 means that many European languages are missing characters. French, Latin with macrons, Hungarian, Finnish, Czech, Romanian, a common orthography for Old Norse (ǫ is missing), and others.<br /><br />If I were to wave a magic wand, I'd port the database to unicode, and publish a Latin-1 legacy table to not break things, but I understand that that may not be practical.<br /><br />On the other hand, Pennsic troll still can't handle Latin-1, so...Alec Storyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00060249149152911264noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1673789523519845637.post-26973733326523900312017-07-31T09:19:22.563-04:002017-07-31T09:19:22.563-04:00The database is current through the most recently ...The database is current through the most recently published results. When new results come out, the delay is usually measured in hours unless I am not in a position to take care of it right away.<br /><br />The database is Latin-1 for now because legacy reasons. Likewise the pipe delimited format. It's handy and useful. The master database is reduced to ASCII with a custom scheme for encoding everything else (Da'ud encoding, we call it). You'll see bits of it in the database where there are characters in the name that are not Latin-1. <br /><br />...and when I say "legacy", I mean, more than two decades of format stability here. Maybe three. Also search code that is not greatly different than from two decades ago. Because it still works.Herveushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03401524157809855999noreply@blogger.com