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020package ca.uhn.fhir.context.phonetic;
021
022public interface IPhoneticEncoder {
023        String name();
024
025        /**
026         * Encode the provided string using a phonetic encoder like Soundex
027         * @param theString
028         * @return
029         */
030        String encode(String theString);
031}