Re: UTF-8 in phonetic code table

On Thu, 23 Nov 2006, [email protected] wrote:

> Hi,
>  I have been trying out rules for Hindi in the phonetic code table,
> by adding hi_phonet.dat, appropriately modifying the hi.dat file,
> and remaking the dictionary. Using UTF-8 in this file is OK, is it
> not?

Yes.

>  Simple rules seem to work, like Devanagari vowel sign i being
> equivalent to Devanagari vowel sign ii. However, I am getting mixed
> results with another simple example, a rule that a consonant sounds
> similar to the same consonant, plus vowel sign a. Here is just one
> example that I have added to the file
>  ह हा
> By adding this rule, I would have expected that any word would be
> zero edit distance away from another, if they differed only in that
> one used ह, and the other हा However, I am not seeing that. The way
> I am testing is by mispelling a word such that it is an edit distance
> of two away from a known word in the dictionary, assuming that the
> rule above makes the edit distance of ह and हा zero. I would then
> expect
> the correct word to show up in the list of suggestions, and indeed
> close to the top. However, I am not seeing that. Am I missing something?

Use "aspell soundslike" to see if the words are being converted as 
expected.

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