RE: SoundEx in swedish?

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My understanding is that soundex was developed by several mathemeticians
at MIT in the 1950's.  The idea was to create a way for similar sounding
family names to be grouped together reguardless of how they might be
spelled, and since english was the language their world spoke, the
algorithm tends to work best with names found in the northeastern United
States.  I believe there are different variants on the algorithm, but
they should produce the same binary number for names that sound the
same.  i.e. Smith and Smythe should produce the same number, or if not
numbers very close to one another.  I would expect poor results with the
Swedish language, perhaps if the mathemeticians had come from Minnesota.
I have personally seen it produce very bad results from Oriental and
Italian names.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gustav Wiberg [mailto:gustav@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: Friday, September 02, 2005 10:43 PM
> To: PHP General
> Subject:  SoundEx in swedish?
> 
> 
> Hi there!
> 
> Soundex works with diffrent kind of pronounciation... but 
> does it work with 
> Swedish language?
> Anyone have experience of this???
> 
> /G
> @varupiraten.se
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