Christian Marie wrote:
> A developer I work with was trying to use dmetaphone to group people names
> into
> equivalence classes. He found that many long names would be grouped together
> when they shouldn't be, this turned out to be because dmetaphone has an
> undocumented upper bound on its outp
On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 2:00 PM, Christian Marie wrote:
> This patch addresses this by adding and documenting an optional argument to
> dmetaphone and dmetaphone_alt that specifies the maximum output length. This
> makes it possible to use dmetaphone on much longer inputs.
It would be good if you
A developer I work with was trying to use dmetaphone to group people names into
equivalence classes. He found that many long names would be grouped together
when they shouldn't be, this turned out to be because dmetaphone has an
undocumented upper bound on its output length, of four. This is obviou
