NAME

Encode::Korean::SKR_1959 - Perl extension for Encoding of Korean: South Korean Romanization 1959.

SYNOPSIS

  use Encode::Korean::SKR_1959;

  $string = decode 'skr-1959', $octets;
  $octets = encode 'skr-1959', $string;

  while($line = <>) {
		print encode 'utf8', decode 'skr-1959', $line;
  }

DESCRIPTION

Encode::Korean::SKR_1959 implements an encoding system of Korean based on the transliteration method of South Korean romanization system, officially released in 1959 by South Korean Ministry of Education.

This module use Encode implementation base class Encode::Encoding. The conversion is carried by a transliterator object of Encode::Korean::TransliteratorGenerator.

RULES

RR of Korean is basically similar to McCune-Reischaur, but uses only low ascii characters. In case of ambiguity, orthographic syllable boundaries may be indicated with a hyphen.

Unicode name		Transliteration

kiyeok			g
ssangkieok		gg
nieun			n
tikeut			d
ssangtikeut		dd
rieul			r
mieum			m
pieup			b
ssangpieup		bb
sios			s
ssangsios		ss
ieung			ng
cieuc			j
ssangcieuc		jj
chieuch			ch
khieukh			k
thieuth			t
phieuph			p
hieuh			h

a			a
ae			ae
ya			ya
yae			yae
eo			eo
e			e
yeo			yeo
ye			ye
o			o
wa			wa
wae			wae
oe			oe
yo			yo
u			u
weo			weo
we			we
wi			wi
yu			yu
eu			eu
yi			eui
i			i

SEE ALSO

Visit "wiki/Korean_romanization" in en.wikipedia.org, if you need information on romanization systems of Korean language.

Visit http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/hangul_jamo.html, if you want a list of Hangul Jamo in Unicode.

See Encode, Encode::Encoding, Encode::Korean, Encode::Korean::TransliteratorGenerator, if you want to know more about relevant modules.

See Encode::KR, Lingua::KO::MacKorean, if you need common encodings.

See Lingua::KO::Romanize::Hangul, if you need a common romanization (transcription method used in public).

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.