NAME

Lingua::Translit::Tables - provides transliteration tables

SYNOPSIS

  use Lingua::Translit::Tables qw/:checks/;

  my $truth;

  $truth = translit_supported("ISO 9");
  $truth = translit_reverse_supported("ISO 9");

  use Lingua::Translit::Tables qw/:list/;

  translit_list_supported();

DESCRIPTION

This module is primary used to provide transliteration tables for Lingua::Translit and therefore allows to separate data and algorithm.

Beyond that, it provides routines to check if a given transliteration is supported and allows to print a simple list of supported transliterations along with some meta information.

EXPORTS

No symbols are exported by default.

Use either the routine's name or one of the following tags to import symbols to your namespace.

all

Import all routines.

checks

Import all routines that allow to check if a given transliteration is supported: translit_supported() and translit_reverse_supported().

list

Import translit_list_supported(). (Convenience tag)

ROUTINES

translit_supported(translit_name)

Returns true (1), iff translit_name is supported. False (0) otherwise.

translit_reverse_supported(translit_name)

Returns true (1), iff translit_name is supported and allows reverse transliteration. False (0) otherwise.

translit_list_supported()

Prints a list of all supported transliterations to STDOUT, providing the following information:

  * Name
  * Reversibility
  * Description

The same information is provided in this document as well:

SUPPORTED TRANSLITERATIONS

Cyrillic

ISO 9, reversible, ISO 9:1995, Cyrillic to Latin

Streamlined System BUL, not reversible, The Streamlined System: 2006, Cyrillic to Latin, Bulgarian

DIN 1460 BUL, reversible, DIN 1460:1982, Cyrillic to Latin, Bulgarian

Greek

ISO 843, not reversible, ISO 843:1997, Greek to Latin

DIN 31634, not reversible, DIN 31634:1982, Greek to Latin

Greeklish, not reversible, Greeklish (Phonetic), Greek to Latin

Latin

Common CES, not reversible, Czech without diacritics

Common DEU, not reversible, German without umlauts

Common POL, not reversible, Unaccented Polish

Common RON, not reversible, Romanian without diacritics as commonly used

Common SLK, not reversible, Slovak without diacritics

Common SLV, not reversible, Slovenian without diacritics

Mongolian

Common Classical MON, reversible, Classical Mongolian to Latin

ADDING NEW TRANSLITERATIONS

In case you want to add your own transliteration tables to Lingua::Translit, a developer manual (xml/manual/) is available in HTML and plain text format. An online version is available at http://www.lingua-systems.com/transliteration/Lingua-Translit-Perl-module/developer-manual/.

All necessary tools and templates to start with are provided as well.

BUGS

None known.

Please report bugs to perl@lingua-systems.com.

SEE ALSO

Lingua::Translit

CREDITS

Thanks to Dr. Daniel Eiwen, Romanisches Seminar, Universitaet Koeln for his help on Romanian transliteration.

Thanks to Bayanzul Lodoysamba <baynaa@users.sourceforge.net> for contributing the "Common Classical Mongolian" transliteration table.

AUTHORS

Alex Linke <alinke@lingua-systems.com>

Rona Linke <rlinke@lingua-systems.com>

LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2008 Alex Linke and Rona Linke

Copyright (C) 2009 Lingua-Systems Software GmbH

This module is free software. It may be used, redistributed and/or modified under the terms of either the GPL v2 or the Artistic license.

cpanm Lingua::Translit

perl -MCPAN -e shell
install Lingua::Translit