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

[Kevin Atkinson]

On Fri, 26 Jan 2001, Jacob Sparre Andersen wrote:

> Kevin:
>
> > 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.
>
> When Martin found it, it must be a problem in practice.
>
> I hadn't noticed it myself, but after a careful review of
> the words with x (which, as in Swedish, is pronounced ks in
> Danish), I found 254 words, where the phonetic
> representation appears to be wrong due to the limit you have
> imposed.
>
> Jacob
>

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