Expose CC-CEDICT bytes as a Go module

README.md

@@ -7,7 +7,29 @@ characters.
 
 <a href="https://www.mdbg.net/chinese/dictionary"><img src="https://www.mdbg.net/logos/mdbg_dictionary_128x32.png" alt="MDBG Chinese-English dictionary" title="MDBG Chinese-English dictionary" style="border: solid 1px #c0c0c0" border="0" /></a>
 
-The original dictionary is available as a plain text file.
+The original dictionary is available as a plain text file. In addition to that,
+this repository is a Go module, which allows for easy consumption of the
+dictionary bytes from a Go program.
+
+```go
+package main
+
+import (
+	"os"
+
+	"github.com/rhcarvalho/cedict"
+)
+
+func main() {
+	os.Stdout.Write(append(cedict.Bytes[:200], []byte("...\n")...))
+}
+```
+
+<!--
+| CC-CEDICT Release Date | Number of Entries |
+|------------------------|-------------------|
+| 2013-03-19T13:58:14Z   | 105565            |
+-->
 
 # License
 

cedict.go

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+// Package cedict provides an embedded copy of the [CC-CEDICT] Chinese to
+// English word dictionary.
+//
+// [CC-CEDICT]: https://www.mdbg.net/chinese/dictionary?page=cc-cedict
+package cedict
+
+import _ "embed"
+
+// Bytes are the raw bytes of the dictionary.
+//
+// The format is described on the [CC-CEDICT Wiki].
+//
+// [CC-CEDICT Wiki]: https://cc-cedict.org/wiki/format:syntax
+//
+//go:embed cedict_1_0_ts_utf-8_mdbg.txt
+var Bytes []byte

cedict_test.go

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+package cedict
+
+import "testing"
+
+func TestBytes(t *testing.T) {
+	if len(Bytes) < 1000 {
+		t.Error("too few bytes")
+	}
+}

go.mod

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+module github.com/rhcarvalho/cedict
+
+go 1.19