In the Morning!
A-B-Chi is a RubyGem aimed at making the process of sorting Chinese Traditional characters easy without having to change database collation settings (I personally couldnt work them out).
I have been wroking in Taiwan for the last year on a CRM-type database and have learned quite a bit about Chinese Traditional characters and their attributes. after pulling my hair out over collation I decided that the best thing to do would be to make my own solution and as I notice that a lot of other people have similar problems I wanted to make this publically available.
There are a few extra functions that I plan to implement in the future which include
- Character to BoPoMoFo (pronunciation characters) and other various things - perhaps a ruby text function or two. (almost done)
- Handling of English and Chinese Simplified Characters. (almost done)
- Base everything around the utf-8 character codes rather than a list of characters.
I really hope this can help someone as I have lost some serious sleep working all this stuff out over a 10 month period!
2.0.0 The new version of this gem can now handle Rails 4.0 Active Record Relation objects!
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I have compiled an extensive database of each Chinese Traditional character and its attributes indluding each different pronunciation of it and will be implementing this in awesome ways in the future. This contains just shy of 16,000 entries.
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If you want to know about BoPoMoFo, I recommend reading the Wikipedia entry on it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bopomofo
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You should also check out the Taiwan Government's official write-up on their standards which can be found here: http://www.cns11643.gov.tw/AIDB/encodings_en.do
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I broke the tests when I added in the ActiveRecord stuff...ill fix that in a few days!
gem install a-b-chi
or for bundler add the following to your Gemfile
gem 'a-b-chi'
If you wish to use this on an ActiveRecord Relation, open the model this collection is concerned with and add
include Chinese
This must be done on a per model basis.
The sourcecode can be found at https://github.com/nallan/a-b-chi
firstly require the file in your project
require 'a-b-chi'
next you must create a new instance of the ArrayChinese class and populate your array
arr.push "李依恬", "李雲帆", "珍項小珍", "瑞芳", "李宗翰"```
finally run the sort method on this. both sort and sort! are supported
```arr.sort OR arr.sort!```
When it comes to the ActiveDirectory stuff, simply get a collection
```@models = Model.all```
and then use the sort_chi method to arrange it phonetically
```@models.sort_chi('field1', 'field2' etc...) OR @models.sort_chi!('field1', 'field2' etc...)```
License
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MIT