Patent ID: 6675358
Filing Date: 2004-01-06
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
A method for managing coined oriental language characters, the method comprising:selecting a regular oriental character; coining a coined character by amending the regular oriental character with an amending oriental character; storing and cataloging the coined character according to a regular character value associated with the regular oriental character and an ordinal value associated with the coined character, such that multiple coined characters are catalogued under the same regular oriental character; and storing in a primary index table the regular character value and a pointer associated with the regular character value, the pointer pointing to an entry data in a secondary index, the entry data including a pointer to a target character stored in a character data file, the entry data also including a second value, the second value being such that: if the second value is the same as the ordinal, then the target character is the coined character; if the second value is not the same as the ordinal value, then the second value is used to point to a next entry data catalogued under the same regular oriental character, the next entry data pointing to another next entry data until an entry data having a second value that is the same as the ordinal is located, wherein the target character is the coined character; and if the second value is null, then the target character is the regular oriental character.