ArSoundex: Implementation of the soundex algorithm for Arabic

This package is specific mainly for applications used in Saudi Arabia .

This class implements a variant of the soundex algorithm for Arabic.

The soundex algorithm converts words into an hash that represents the way the word is spelled in English. This class implements a modified version the algorithm to consider Arabic spelling and windows-1256 character set encoding instead of English.

This class is part of Khaled Al-Shamaa project for PHP and Arabic language:
http://www.al-shamaa.com/php/arabic/