John Machin wrote: > On 25/04/2006 3:15 PM, Edward Elliott wrote: >> Phoneme matching seems overly complex and might >> grab things like Tsu-zi. > > It might *only* if somebody had a rush of blood to the head and devised > yet another phonetic key "algorithm". Tsuzi does *not* give the same > result as any of Suzi, Suzie, Susi, and Susie when pushed through any of > the following; Soundex, NYSIIS, Metaphone, Dolby, and Caverphone. None > of them throw away the 'T' sound.
Spelling isn't phonetic. The 't' character doesn't necessarily affect pronounciation. Or it may affect pronounciation in a way the soundex doesn't understand (think tonal languages). Latinizing foreign languages raises all sorts of problems. A soundex is only as good as its pronounciation database. It may work well in many situations, but it isn't fool-proof. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
