The SPECIALIST Lexicon

Requirements Capturing

The annual LEXICON must past following tests:

• LexCheck Syntax Test
  This should be done in LexBuild on real-time when a lexRecord is added!

  LexCheck.ValidateSyntaxFromTextFile

• Standardize Test

  ${LEXICON}/bin/1.FinalizeLexicon <year>

  ID	Test Descriptions	Source Program
  1	Release Format: remove annotation & signature	LexCheck -f:r
  2	Autofix Illegal Non-ASCII Unicode	LexBuild.FixIllegalNonAsciiChars

• Content Test

  ${LEXICON}/bin/2.ValidateLexicon <year>

  • Check (fix) contents

    LexCheck.ValidateContentFromTextFile -f

    ID	Test Descriptions	Program
    2	Remove base=E0000000	.
    3	Validate base: non-ASCII (if possible)	.
    4	Validate base: no punctuation (if possible)	.
    5	Irreg	.
    6	TradeMark	.
    7	Cross reference: NOM/ABB/ACR	.
    8	derivation on NOM: spelling var	.

  • Check Non-ASCII (Manually fix)

    Unicode.GetNonAsciiFromFile

    • Manually go through *.Char and *.line and fix typos of non-ASCII characrters. The table below shows the common seen non-ASCII typos

      Character name			Typo
      Name	Character	Value	Name	Character	Value
      mu	[μ]	U+03BC	Micro Sign	[µ]	U+00B5
      beta	[β]	U+03B2	Latin Sharp S	[ß]	U+00DF
      apostrophe	[']	U+0027	Right single quote	[’]	U+2019
      apostrophe	[']	U+0027	Left single quote	[‘]	U+2018
      hyphen	[-]	U+002D	EN DASH	[–]	U+2013