Adding Catalan support

[jmontane]

Hi,
I'm the curator of an open licensed wordlist for Catalan language Scrabble. It's used at some Scrabble tournaments (other tournaments use a closed wordlist). I'm trying to add Catalan support to Scrabble-solver (See screenshots and fork). But I have some issues:

• Multichar/digraph tiles. Catalan has NY, L·L and QU tiles. NY and QU works (I'm unable to type them, see Issue Unable to input Spanish digraph tiles #279), but L·L tile (it's a 3 char tile) doesn't work. Neither using clipboard
• I can't provide dictionary definitions (how can avoid this requirement?)
• Catalan flag appears weird. I was unable to fix it
• I would like to classify Ç and L·L as consonant tiles, just like C, M or NY tiles.

Can you help me? Thanks in advance

[kamilmielnik]

• Multichar/digraph tiles. Catalan has NY, L·L and QU tiles. NY and QU works (I'm unable to type them, see Issue Unable to input Spanish digraph tiles #279), but L·L tile (it's a 3 char tile) doesn't work. Neither using clipboard

My fault, feel free to skip this and I'll make sure it's fixed before Catalan support is released.

(it's a 3 char tile)

Ouuuuuch.
This not supported yet. It's hard but surely doable.
Feel free to skip this part.
I'll sleep on it and think about it.

• I can't provide dictionary definitions (how can avoid this requirement?)

I believe we can use Català Wiktionary.
It was used by Scrabble Solver at some point for all languages but unfortunately it was good-enough only for English.
If this is the best we can do for Catalan - let it be.
Feel free to skip this and I'll be more than happy to take care of this part.

• Catalan flag appears weird. I was unable to fix it

Did you provide aspect ratio (see: 1 & 2)?

• I would like to classify Ç and L·L as consonant tiles, just like C, M or NY tiles.

These constants have to be updated: https://github.com/kamilmielnik/scrabble-solver/blob/master/packages/constants/src/index.ts#L15-L17

I'm not sure about classifying L·L as a consonant. It's a digraph, right?

Can you help me? Thanks in advance

It'll make me happy if Scrabble Solver supports Catalan :)

[kamilmielnik]

I've created a dedicated milestone for Catalan support: https://github.com/kamilmielnik/scrabble-solver/milestone/21

[kamilmielnik]

L·L is difficult because · is not allowed by itself.
Would it be ok, if typing LL in Catalan would insert L·L?

The · would never have to be provided (but it would still work when pasting).

[jmontane]

L·L is difficult because · is not allowed by itself. Would it be ok, if typing LL in Catalan would insert L·L?

The · would never have to be provided (but it would still work when pasting).

Yes, it's good enough. But two regular L can be played together too. See: cella vs. cel·la sample, they are different and valid words.

• C-E-L-L-A: 5 tiles are needed to play this word
• C-E-L·L-A: 4 tiles are needed to play this word

[kamilmielnik]

I'll sleep on it and think about it.

I think it will be easier if your code is merged before I start fixing the L·L case because I plan to do some refactoring that will create conflicts with your code.

I can't provide dictionary definitions (how can avoid this requirement?)

I see in your fork that you've added support for word definitions.
Can we close the #282 then?

[kamilmielnik]

I think it will be easier if your code is merged before I start #281 because I plan to do some refactoring that will create conflicts with your code.

Not that many conflicts though. I'll proceed with it.

[kamilmielnik]

@jmontane FYI I've simplified adding languages a bit and wrote down a checklist for it: https://github.com/kamilmielnik/scrabble-solver#add-a-new-language. I hope the conflicts will not be that difficult to fix. I can handle them if they turn out to be too much of a trouble.

Would you mind submitting your PR? (even with conflicts)
From what I see it's pretty much done except some of the issues that are already reported separately in GitHub.