NAME

Text::Unaccent - Remove accents from a string

SYNOPSIS

use Text::Unaccent;

$unaccented = unac_string($charset, $string);
$unaccented = unac_string_utf16($string);
$version = unac_version();
unac_debug($level);

DESCRIPTION

Text::Unaccent is a module that remove accents from a string. unac_string converts the input string from the specified charset to UTF-16 and call unac_string_utf16 to return the unaccented equivalent. The conversion from and to UTF-16 is done with iconv(1).

METHODS

$unaccented = unac_string($charset, $string)

Return the unaccented equivalent of the string $string. The character set of $string is specified by the $charset argument. The returned string is coded using the same character set. Valid values for the $charset argument are character sets known by iconv(1). Under GNU/Linux try iconv -l for a complete list.

$unaccented = unac_string_utf16($string)

Return the unaccented equivalent of the string $string. The character set of $string must be UTF-16.

$version = unac_version()

Return the version of the unac library used by this perl module.

unac_debug($level)

Set the debug level. Messages are printed on stderr. Possible debug levels are:

AUTHOR

Loic Dachary (loic@senga.org) http://www.senga.org/unac/

SEE ALSO

iconv(1), unac(3).