Well, double-metaphone does a very good job with languages other than English, so there could be a bitwise property that decides which algorithm to use... we could include improved soundex (default), metaphone, and double-metaphone for right now since I have VFP versions of each. I don't remember if during my research of double-metaphone if I compiled a list of languages that it is good for... so that might be something to look into. There are other sounds-like algorithms out there I am sure for different languages. It's definitely interesting.

>Hi Naomi,
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>> I posted a link to Craig's blog on a Russian forum. The question I received is: would this class work with Russian language? So, my question is: is it a simple thing and we just need to add a dictionary for the specific language or the whole logic has to be revised? I haven't looked into the class yet myself, though I did download it.
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>There are at least 2 things that would need to be tweaked:
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>1. Word parsing would need to recognize Russian alpha chars (current code uses A-Z and a-z; using isalpha() will fix this)
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>2. A different technique would need to be used for generating suggestions (current code uses an enhanced soundex optimized for English)
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>I'm in the process of updating Craig's code to change the parsing algorthims for international support. I don't have any ideas on how to update Craig's enhanced soundex() code for other languages.
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>Malcolm