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Text::Undiacritic(3pm) User Contributed Perl Documentation Text::Undiacritic(3pm)

NAME

Text::Undiacritic - remove diacritics from a string

VERSION

This document describes Text::Undiacritic 0.01

SYNOPSIS

    use Text::Undiacritic qw(undiacritic);
    $ascii_string = undiacritic( $czech_string );

DESCRIPTION

Changes characters with diacritics into their base characters.

Also changes into base character in cases where UNICODE does not provide a decomposition.

E.g. all characters '... WITH STROKE' like 'LATIN SMALL LETTER L WITH STROKE' do not have a decomposition. In the latter case the result will be 'LATIN SMALL LETTER L'.

Removing diacritics is useful for matching text independent of spelling variants.

SUBROUTINES/METHODS

undiacritic

    $ascii_string = undiacritic( $characters );

Removes diacritics from $characters and returns a simplified character string.

The input string must be in character modus, i.e. UNICODE code points.

DIAGNOSTICS

CONFIGURATION AND ENVIRONMENT

DEPENDENCIES

  • version
  • charnames
  • Unicode::Normalize

INCOMPATIBILITIES

BUGS AND LIMITATIONS

There is no experience if this module gives useful results for scripts other than Latin.

AUTHOR

Helmut Wollmersdorfer "<WOLLMERS@cpan.org>"

LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 2007, Helmut Wollmersdorfer "<WOLLMERS@cpan.org>". All rights reserved.

This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

2023-02-05 perl v5.36.0