KGS Issue - Kogo's Joseki Dictionary

   

This is the discussion of the wish to allow to use Kogo's Joseki Dictionary with CGoban2.

wms: The problem is that Kogo's is generated with WinMGT, and WinMGT produces bogus SGF files. CGoban 2 is very careful to only be able to write valid SGF; in fact, its internal data structures are not capable of holding invalid SGF. When it reads a file that is invalid, it reports errors. CGoban 1 (and most other apps) aren't as careful and don't notice the mistakes in the file. I have exchanged email with the author of WinMGT about this, and his answer was that the SGF standard is stupid and he won't fix his program. I could probably make CGoban 2 do a better job of fixing the problems as it reads in Kogo's, but as you can imagine, writing code to repair files written by programs whose authors have that attitude isn't real high on my list of things to do. My advice: Please complain to the author of WinMGT, and tell him to make his program emit valid SGF. Once he fixes his program, and Kogo/Gary Odom start using a fixed version, then these errors will disappear.

Bill: I have also found a remedy. Replace every "AW[" with ";AW[" and every "AB[" with ";AB[". Easy. :-)


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