Kjell Rilbe wrote: > So, to be frank I'd say for many languages the problem is not if FB has > support for phonetic matching or not, but if a working phonetic matching > algorithm even exists (has been developed) for that language. If it > does, coding it would probably be a rather straightforward task.
Soundex? I run a genealogical database using a Firebird port of phpgedview, and this has fields in the name tables for a couple of soundex versions of the names to allow soundex lookup. The conversion is done in PHP but could equally be a UDF or other plugin to Firebird. The thought that I had early on is 'Would this work as a collation?' but if you look at the Daitch-Mokotoff rules I doubt that it could be coded as a collation as it processes based on the order of the result. The D-M rules are designed to language agnostic but I'm not sure how well it does manage that - it works nicely for my own family tree searches. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ----------------------------- Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Minimize network downtime and maximize team effectiveness. Reduce network management and security costs.Learn how to hire the most talented Cisco Certified professionals. Visit the Employer Resources Portal http://www.cisco.com/web/learning/employer_resources/index.html Firebird-Devel mailing list, web interface at https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/firebird-devel
