Sonnex

Sonnex is an alternative to Soundex for french language

The string must contain only one word. The Sonnex code contains the following characters:

• 1 ← un, ein, in, ain
• 2 ← en, an
• 3 ← on
• a ← a, à, â
• b ← b, bb
• C ← ch
• d ← d, dd
• e ← e, eu
• é ← ê, é, è, ai, ei
• f ← f, ff, ph
• g ← gu
• i ← î, i, ille
• j ← j, ge
• k ← k, c, qu, ck
• l ← l, ll
• m ← m, mm
• n ← n, nn
• o ← o, ô
• p ← p, pp
• r ← r, rr
• s ← s, ss
• t ← t, tt
• u ← u, ù, û
• v ← v, w
• z ← z, s
• U ← ou

Examples

Here are a few examples of sonnex results:

• balade | ballade → balad
• basilic | basilique → bazilik
• boulot | bouleau → bUlo
• cane | canne → kan
• censé | sensé → s2sé
• compte | comte | conte → k3t
• cygne | signe → sin
• date | datte → dat
• dessin | dessein → dés1
• différend | différent → difér2
• cric | crique → krik
• champ | chant → C2

Testing

The test directory contains two files:

• test-sonnex-homonymes.txt: a list of french homonyms
• test-sonnex-streets.txt: a list of streets from Rouen (Normandy)

You can try these files against Sonnex by using the following command:

cat test-sonnex-homonymes.txt | runhaskell test-sonnex.hs