Gramps is bundled with support for the phonetic indexing system: SoundEx. This fuzzy name matching system was adopted USA’s Census Bureau and the Social Security Administration in the 1930s. But is is not well-suited to non-English phonetics. And the implementation is the original 4-character “Ru…

Maybe minor adjustments for french? [image] Une IA locale pour Gramps? Français (French) C’est marrant, j’avais fait un patch relativement propre à l’époque ! --- finddupes.glade 2010-10-24 17:05:33.000000000 +0200 +++ finddupes.glade 2010-12-17 18:43:53.0000…

From a superficial look, Phonex appears to be a French dialect of the 4-character “Russell” (NARA) Soundex. It does not seem to build on the 6-digit Daitch–Mokotoff Soundex base. So you get one or the other?

By adjustments, I only thought on the replacement sections on code (oriented sounds into french locale), not really on a complete soundex alternative. # 1 remplacer les y par des i r = r.replace('Y','I') # voir 7 r = r.replace(u'É','Y') r = r.replace(u'È','Y') r = r…

My old genealogy program offers the following phonetic search options: Sondex Extended Soundex Kölner Phonetik PHONEM dMetaphone 1 dMetaphone 2 Daitch-Mokotoff Phonet 1 Phonet 2 I never tested the differences.

I was originally became motivated to discuss the Soundex feature after having Claude add a Fuzzy Search option to Relationship Filter gramplet , an expansion of @dsblank ’s rework of the Flat Filter gramplet by @bugbear . A bit of searching only surfaced a few features with Soundex options: Find Pos…

[image] emyoulation: Phonex appears to be a French dialect of the 4-character “Russell” (NARA) Soundex. True, for the pasted code, which looks like a NARA Soundex extended. By looking at common use and alternative, we can quickly find some basic rules or an alternate return. I do not know w…

Experimental and Expert Crashes and data loss should be expected with “proof of concept” code. Please backup before use and work on a test tree data. This 0.2.1 testing version of the Fuzzy Match gramplet (for People categories) has Gdk-CRITICAL and Gtk-CRITICAL warnings that still have to be trac…

[image] emyoulation: Crashes and data loss should be expected with “proof of concept” code. Please backup before use and work on a test tree data. File ".gramps/gramps52/plugins/Fuzzy/FuzzyMatchingGramplet.py", line 148, in <module> from phonetic_codes import ALGORITHM_LABELS, ALGORITHM…

Thanks for the detailed feedback! I’ll run them through Claude when my session limit resets in 3 hours. FWIW, my primary test box is running: $ gramps -v Gramps Settings: ---------------- gramps : 5.2.2 o.s. : linux Required: --------- Python : 3.11.6 Gtk++ : 3.24.38 pygobjec…

[image] romjerome: Maybe not a “real” issue as I should not run Gramps 5.2.x (custom banch) with python 3.6… update 0.2.2 posted for compatibility with different Python versions. (2 additional Encoding systems were bundled too. Leaning towards changing to a Rule plugin structure.)

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Maybe minor adjustments for French?

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