On Tue, Oct 09, 2012 at 02:10:26PM +0200, Willy-Bas Loos wrote: > Hi, > > I need a *language unaware* text comparison algorithm [. . .] > (i want to use it for *"did you mean ...?"* for approx 6-10 character codes > or 8-20 letter words of mixed languages) I don't think this is going to do what you want, at least from the user's point of view. The character codes case probably would work in a language-unaware way. But for the mixed languages case, surely it's not _any_ mixed language? Are you mixing Arabic, Farsi, Chinese, and Hindi, for instance? If not, then you're not really language unaware, but instead constrained by a subset of languages. That is a more tractable problem (for instance, you may not have to worry about direction changes, which vastly simplifies the problem). Best, A -- Andrew Sullivan ajs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
