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

[Martin Norbäck]

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.

        n.

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