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Originally Posted by AlPe
From what I see, the file "words" contains only the words stored in the dictionary (the "keys"), in several variants --- e.g., singular/plural for the Italian one.
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Thank you for sharing. Actually, I just found the same (had to install Ubuntu first). So I was rather close to the truth by saying "
all values in the key-dictionary are empty or irrelevant."
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Originally Posted by AlPe
Hence, file "words" can be used only to know whether a query word is present in the dictionary or not.
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They possibly use it also for populating the list of choices if you start typing in the search field of the dictionary screen.
As for the Japanese dictionary, there seem to be more steps involved for attesting whether a word is present in the dictionary seem. In Japanese, there are (at least) two ways of writing a word, in Kanji (logographic characters) and in Kana (phonological characters). In the flle "words", both kinds of writing are put one after the other (Kana[Kanji]). As I understand marisa, it can find strings that match the search string exactly and also strings that start with the search string. So in order to search for a Kanji in "words" it would be necessary to pair the Kanji with the Kana reading first.