Wols Lists wrote: > On 03/04/13 12:12, Lester Caine wrote: >> 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? > > Looking at the wikipedia page mentioned at the start of this thread, it > said metaphone is based on soundex. It was an attempt to fix some of the > big mistakes caused by soundex's simplistic approach. > > And as for other databases having phonetic support, I know Pick supports > it. And to the best of my knowledge that support predates when I first > met Pick in the mid 80s.
Daitch-Mokotoff rules is what I've been using for some time, but it looks like there has been a more recent update to address some of the aspects of that http://stevemorse.org/phonetics/bmpm2.htm pulls all the info together nicely. I'd skipped Metaphone simply because it was a backwards step in only handling 'English'. Beider-Morse seems to be more robust and from what I've seen so far does allow further refining of the rules. Nice thing for me is that the code is already PHP so I should simply be able to add it to the other conversions and add a couple more fields to the database. -- 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
