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multibyte UTF-8 characters #6

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necroahegyrol opened this issue Oct 9, 2017 · 0 comments

necroahegyrol commented Oct 9, 2017

All algorithms are ranging over the bytes of strings, which leads to different results for multibyte and singlebyte UTF-8 characters.

Example using WagnerFischer(a, b, 1, 1, 1):

"szellemhaj" - "szellemhajo" distance is 1
"szellemhaj" - "szellemhajó" distance is 2

Ranging over runes of strings would result 1,1 distance.
It's is slower but more accurate for non-ascii characters.

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