NAME

Encode::Korean::NKR_1992 - Perl extension for Encoding Korean: North Korean Romanizaiton (National system of DPKR), released in 1992 by Chosun Gwahagwon.

SYNOPSIS

use Encode::Korean::NKR_1992;

$string = decode 'nkr', decode $enc, $octets;
$octets = encode $enc, encode 'nkr', $string;

while($line = <>) {
	print encode 'utf8', decode 'nkr', $line;
}

DESCRIPTION

Encode::Korean::NKR_1992 implements an encoding system based on North Korean Romanizaiton (National system of DPKR), released in 1992 by Chosun Gwahagwon.

RULES

$nkr->consonants(qw(k kk n t tt r m p pp s ss ng ts tss tsh kh th ph h)); $nkr->vowels( "a", "ae", "ya", "yae", "\x{014F}", # latin small letter with breve (ŏ) "e", "y\x{014F}", "ye", "o", "wa", "wae", "oe", "yo", "u", "w\x{014F}", "we", "wi", "yu", "\x{016D}", # latin small letter u with breve (ŭ) "\x{016D}y", "i"

SEE ALSO

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_romanization, you can find a link to comparsion table of transliteration systems.

AUTHOR

You Hyun Jo, <youhyunjo (at) gmail (dot) com>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2007 by You Hyun Jo

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.8 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.