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+/*******************************************************************************
+ * Copyright (c) 2000, 2003 IBM Corporation and others.
+ * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
+ * are made available under the terms of the Common Public License v1.0
+ * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
+ * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/cpl-v10.html
+ *
+ * Contributors:
+ * IBM Corporation - initial API and implementation
+ *******************************************************************************/
+
+package net.sourceforge.phpdt.internal.ui.text.spelling.engine;
+
+/**
+ * Interface of hashers to compute the phonetic hash for a word.
+ *
+ * @since 3.0
+ */
+public interface IPhoneticHashProvider {
+
+ /**
+ * Returns the phonetic hash for the word.
+ *
+ * @param word
+ * The word to get the phonetic hash for
+ * @return The phonetic hash for the word
+ */
+ public String getHash(String word);
+
+ /**
+ * Returns an array of characters to compute possible mutations.
+ *
+ * @return Array of possible mutator characters
+ */
+ public char[] getMutators();
+}