Lingua/DE/ASCII version 0.02
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NAME

Lingua::DE::ASCII - Perl extension to convert german umlauts to and from ascii

SYNOPSIS

  use Lingua::DE::ASCII;
  print to_ascii("Umlaute wie ä,ö,ü,ß oder auch é usw. " .
                 "sind nicht im ASCII Format " .
                 "und werden deshalb umgeschrieben);
  print to_latin1("Dies muesste auch rueckwaerts funktionieren ma cherie");
                 

DESCRIPTION

This module enables conversion from and to the ASCII format of german texts.

It has two methods: C<to_ascii> and C<to_latin1> which one do exactly what they say.

EXPORT

to_ascii($string)
to_latin1($string)


INSTALLATION

To install this module type the following:

   perl Makefile.PL
   make
   make test
   make install

The self test is very intensive,
it may need up to 5 minutes as it tests with a huge german word list.

DEPENDENCIES

This module requires these other modules and libraries:

Test::More (only for testing)

Furthermore it requires a (german) locale settings supporting ISO-Latin-1.

COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE

Put the correct copyright and licence information here.

Copyright (C) 2003 Janek Schleicher

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the same terms as Perl itself. 

