Lingua/DE/ASCII version 0.10 ============================ 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 and C 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.