That doesn’t make any sense. A alphabet is a list of valid characters. A dictionary is not just a list. Even in a language like Chinese where individual characters carry meaning, a dictionary tells you what that meaning is. It’s not just a list of characters.
replyOr to echo article, the dictionary is made out of weights.
A list of words isn’t a dictionary. What a dictionary adds over a list of words is all the relationships between the words needed to interpret them and use them, and all of that is in the weights.
replyWe should tell the Unix people that they've been giving /usr/share/dict the wrong name for over three decades. (-:
replyI mean, they did, and we have, and we've also stopped doing that.
replyWe should start telling them again, then. (-:
replyIn the current versions of FreeBSD, NetBSD, DragonFlyBSD, Illumos, and Debian, it is still /usr/share/dict .
* https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/tree/share/dict/
* https://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/share/dict/
* https://gitweb.dragonflybsd.org/?p=dragonfly.git;a=tree;f=sh...
* https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/src/share/dict
* https://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/FHS_3.0/fhs/ch04s11.htm...
* https://packages.debian.org/sid/all/wbritish/filelist
Amusingly for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Diff/325776830 , the last place to use /usr/dict (Debian, which changed it in 1998; Berkeley having changed it in Net/2 in 1991) stopped doing so years before Wikipedia was invented.
A mapping of Chinese characters to integers (like a tokenizer) would not be a dictionary. You’d also need definitions. At best it’s an index to a hypothetical dictionary.
replyIt's beside the point and so I only note it out of interest, but the Chinese writing system doesn't use an alphabet (or a syllabary like Japanese kana), it's logography.
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