[ZDP] Phonetic search in zcatalog...

[Rik Hoekstra]

> Daniel Dias wrote:
> >
> > hi!
> > how to I implement a phonetic search in zcatalog?
> > any ideas will be welcome...
>
> I would look for something related to SOUNDEX.  It's a translation
> language that converts words to an approximate, simplified phonetic
> version.  For example I know my last name translated is "H300".
>
> I wonder if ZCatalog could be made to support it natively... :-)
>

A guess would be you could hack together a the Vocabulary which would map
soundex values to words.
Note: soundex searches are different for all languages, so your solution
would have to take that into account .

Rik