Simon, At 15:26 02/07/2009, you wrote: ´¯¯¯ >What we need is a new version of Soundex which is written to deal with >unicode instead of ASCII. `---
Umm, soundex already fails often with plain english names. It would need a whole lot of native speakers of all those languages around to come up with anything usable worldwide, if at all possible (which I strongly doubt). But even with that at hand, it would have hard time to solve "common" cases where, for instance, someone has a Greak name, a Danish first name and lives in China. ´¯¯¯ > The best known code along those lines is a perl function >called unidecode. Reading about it may help you decide how to proceed: `--- Thanks for the pointers, I'll have a look at it. _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
