Encode::Buckwalter version 0.1
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NAME
       Encode::Buckwalter - ASCII-based Arabic Transliteration

SYNOPSIS
       use Encode;
       use Encode::Buckwalter;
       $utf = decode( "Buckwalter", "fwbr" );
       $bwt = encode( "Buckwalter", "\x{0641}\x{0648}\x{0628}\x{0x631}" );

ABSTRACT

In Buckwalter Transliteration, selected letters and non-letter
characters from the ASCII (7-bit) set are used to create a one-to-one
mapping to the most common Arabic letters and diacritic marks.  The
Encode::Buckwalter module provides an Encode-compatible means for
converting between UTF-8 Arabic and Buckwalter.

INSTALLATION

To install this module type the following:

   perl Makefile.PL
   make
   make test
   make install

DEPENDENCIES

This module requires perl version 5.7.3 or later.

COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE

Copyright (C) 2008 University of Pennsylvania <graff@ldc.upenn.edu>

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

