Allow to escape only unicode chars

[Dictionary.git] / dictionary-format-v6.txt

diff --git a/dictionary-format-v6.txt b/dictionary-format-v6.txt
index e84daec3c7d52dacf13201f0bcbe933f36e897fa..06941cccff6db756412e8850763ca865506e0323 100644 (file)
--- a/dictionary-format-v6.txt
+++ b/dictionary-format-v6.txt
@@ -1,7 +1,10 @@
 This is a quick write-up of the old dictionary file format, v6.
 This is a quick write-up of the old dictionary file format, v6.

+It is the format that is (unfortunately) still used by the Tolino
+ebook readers. The ConvertToV6 tool can be used to convert
+the new format to this old one.

 v6 is troublesome as it relies on Java serialization and thus
 there will be references to Java types.
 v6 is troublesome as it relies on Java serialization and thus
 there will be references to Java types.

-This hasn't been checked for correctness and likely has some bugs.
+This hasn't been checked much for correctness and likely has some bugs.

 Also, I really should have used some standard format for writing this...
 
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 Also, I really should have used some standard format for writing this...
 
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@@ -185,3 +188,17 @@ First part consists always the same 40 bytes:
     1 byte 0x74: String type
     [String]: stop word
 1 byte 0x78: blockdata end
     1 byte 0x74: String type
     [String]: stop word
 1 byte 0x78: blockdata end

+
+Note: Some even older dictionaries wrote out a LinkedHashSet instead of a
+HashSet.
+That adds the following bytes describing LinkedHashSet before the 0x72 above:
+    0x72, // class
+    // Java String "java.util.LinkedHashSet"
+    0x00, 0x17, 0x6a, 0x61, 0x76, 0x61, 0x2e, 0x75, 0x74, 0x69,
+    0x6c, 0x2e, 0x4c, 0x69, 0x6e, 0x6b, 0x65, 0x64, 0x48, 0x61,
+    0x73, 0x68, 0x53, 0x65, 0x74,
+    // serialization ID
+    0xd8, 0x6c, 0xd7, 0x5a, 0x95, 0xdd, 0x2a, 0x1e,
+    0x02, // flags
+    0x00, 0x00, // fields count
+    0x78 // blockdata end