NAME

Dict::Word - Perl extension for getting the radix and the translation of Arabic words

SYNOPSIS

use utf8;

my $word=Dict::Word->new(ARABIC_WORD_IN_UTF8);

open FOUTPUT, ">>TEST" or die "Cannot create TEST: $!\n"; binmode(FOUTPUT,":utf8");

print FOUTPUT $word->get_word(); print FOUTPUT $word->get_radix(); print FOUTPUT $word->get_arabtex();

my $db=Dict::Db->new("./dicts","en"); print FOUTPUT $word->get_translation($db);

close FOUTPUT;

DESCRIPTION

In order to work on an Arabic word, you need to create the object Dict::Word, passing the Arabic word encoded in utf8 to the constructor. You will then be able to get the radix through get_radix(). You will get the ArabTeX translittered form through get_arabtex(). If you also want the translation, you'll need to create the $db object (described in the Dict::Db module), so that it may look for its meaning in the correct Database.

Remember that input-output directly to shell will not be useful as long as your shell doesn't support utf8 encoded characters. That's because I piped the output to another file, forcing its writing in utf8.

SEE ALSO

You may find more info about ArabTeX encoding at ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pub/arabtex/arabtex.htm

AUTHOR

Andrea Benazzo, <andy@slacky.it>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (c) 2005 Andrea Benazzo. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.