Lingua/DE/ASCII version 0.08
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NAME

Lingua::DE::ASCII - Perl extension to convert german umlauts to and from ascii

SYNOPSIS

  use Lingua::DE::ASCII;
  print to_ascii("Umlaute wie ä,ö,ü,ß oder auch é usw. " .
                 "sind nicht im ASCII Format " .
                 "und werden deshalb umgeschrieben);
  print to_latin1("Dies muesste auch rueckwaerts funktionieren ma cherie");
                 

DESCRIPTION

This module enables conversion from and to the ASCII format of german texts.

It has two methods: C<to_ascii> and C<to_latin1> which one do exactly what they say.

EXPORT

to_ascii($string)
to_latin1($string)


INSTALLATION

To install this module type the following:

   perl Makefile.PL
   make
   make test
   make install

The self test is very intensive,
it may need 10 minutes as it tests with a huge german word list.
If it is to long for, just look for the first few seconds, 
if no error occurs up till then, it shouldn't happen in the remaining minutes and
it should be O.K. to skip the remaining test.
(And to give you a feeling, a progress bar is shown)

DEPENDENCIES

This module requires these other modules and libraries:

Test::More (only for testing)

If you want a nicer feeling when testing and waiting,
you should also install
Term::ProgressBar

COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE

Put the correct copyright and licence information here.

Copyright (C) 2003 Janek Schleicher

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

