Re: [aspell] Strange behaviour in the phonetic translation rules

[Kevin Atkinson]

On Fri, 26 Jan 2001, Martin Norbäck wrote:

> 2001-01-26T05:08:37-0500, Kevin Atkinson ->
> > Yes it is a bug.  The bug is that the phonetic representation can not be
> > longer than the actual word.  This is rarely a problem in practice because
> > most all of the time the phonetic representation is a good deal shorter
> > than the actual word.  I have not had time to fix it, nor is a high
> > priority since it it not a real problem in practice although I should make a
> > note of it.
>
> Thanks for the swift response!
>
> The sad thing is that is is a real problem in my practice.
>
> Since I don't do vowel stripping, because Swedish vowels always sounds
> the same, or can be divided into groups sounding the same, and since
> Swedish has a very close mapping between characters and sounds, it
> affects 48 of 118270 words in my word list, more than 0.04%! The longest
> one is "konsumentprisindex" which is wrongly translated into
> KONSUMENTPRISINTEK.
>
> Ok, so it's not a major part of the words. :)
>
> However, important words, like "sex", "Linux", and "Unix" are affected.

It is also a bug that is not very easy to fix.  I won't be fixed in time
for Aspell .33 (which is due out this weekend) unfortunately.  I suggest you
file a bug report.  If you don't in the next day or so I will.

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Kevin Atkinson
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