Wouldn't the conversion to a western writing followed by Soundex or Metaphone 
be the right thing to try?

I thought such conversions were mainstream.

paul



Le 20 oct. 2011 à 12:16, Otis Gospodnetic a écrit :

> Hi,
> 
> Wow, interesting question.  Can soundex even be applied to a language like 
> Chinese, which is tonal and doesn't have individual letters, but whole 
> characters?  I'm no expert, but intuitively speaking it sounds hard or maybe 
> even impossible...  
> 
> Otis
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>> ________________________________
>> From: Floyd Wu <floyd...@gmail.com>
>> To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org
>> Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2011 5:43 AM
>> Subject: Does anybody has experience in Chinese soundex(sounds like) of SOLR?
>> 
>> Hi  there,
>> 
>> There are many English soundex implementation can be referenced, but I
>> wonder how to do Chinese soundex(sounds like) filter (maybe).
>> 
>> any idea?
>> 
>> Floyd
>> 
>> 

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