Field SILENT_MARKER

The marker character used to indicate a silent (ignored) character. These are ignored except when they appear as the first character.

Note: the US_ENGLISH_MAPPING_STRING does not use this mechanism because changing it might break existing code. Mappings that don't contain a silent marker code are treated as though H and W are silent.

To override this, use the Soundex(String, Boolean) constructor.

since 1.11