Adding generic language model (see coming commit), which uses the same
data as specific single-byte encoding statistics model, except that it
applies it to unicode code points.
For this to work, instead of the CharToOrderMap which was mapping
directly from encoded byte (always 256 values) to order, now we add an
array of frequent characters, ordered by generic unicode code points to
the order of frequency (which can be used on the same sequence mapping
array).
This of course means that each prober where we will want to use these
generic models will have to implement their own byte to code point
decoder, as this is per-encoding logics anyway. This will come in a
subsequent commit.
This happened when building a Croatian model which can be written with
many different encodings. There were also many irrelevant glyphs (i.e.
used in other languages) in these encodings so we ended with orders over
255, which breaks when converting to unsigned char.
Just let's make sure that we don't cross the 250 limit (over is used for
controls, illegal characters, symbols, numbers…). This means we may have
several characters with order 249, but since orders over the frequent
character list don't matter, this is not a problem.
Even the test `if hasattr(page, 'links')` would trigger this exception.
So I try the approach "Easier to Ask Forgiveness than Permission".
Weird stuff but well…
Note: I had this exception when running it on the Maltese data.
… for langs for which Python lower() algorithm fails.
In particular Turkish dotted/dotless 'i' does not follow same rules
as common western languages.
Lowercase for 'I' is indeed not 'i' but 'ı'.
Uppercase for 'i' is indeed not 'I' but 'İ'.
I had the case with the Turkish dotted 'İ' that lowercasing it with
Python algorithm returned me a decomposed character that it was not able
to recompose. Therefore ord() raised a TypeError because the string
length was 2.
I.e. horizontally or "breadth first" rather than vertical tree traversal.
This allows to make sure all the start pages in particular are searched,
when using max_page option.
With the new case_mapping lang property, we can consider upper and lower
case versions of the same character as one character.
This makes sense in some language, and would allow to enter some rarer
characters (but still in the main alphabet) inside the frequent
character list. For instance 'œ' and 'Œ' in French.
