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Chapter 8 - Dictionary Manager

About the Dictionary Manager

The Dictionary Manager supplies a uniform and public dictionary format and a set of operations that allows you to manipulate data in a dictionary file. This standard dictionary format helps to make the insertion, deletion, and searching operations in a dictionary available for all input methods.

This section describes the format and content of the data in a dictionary file, discusses the concept of garbage data and how the Dictonary Manager handles it, and presents some of the limitations you should be aware of before planning to use the Dictionary Manager.

Dictionary file types and Finder routing

Dictionaries belong in the Extensions folder within the user's System Folder. If your dictionary has a file type of 'dict', 'dic0', 'dic1', or 'dic2', the Finder automatically routes it to the Extensions folder if the user drops it on the System Folder.

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Subtopics

The Structure of a Dictionary

Garbage Data

Dictionary Manager Limitations