Tools for working with Ethiopic text in Perl

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-=* Convert::Ethiopic *=-
Tools for working with Ethiopic text in Perl
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README file for Convert-Ethiopic distribution:

This package was originally developed as an interface to the LibEth
programming library for Ethiopic text and information processing. The
Ethiopic module is not a comprehensive interface to the LibEth library but
the minimum to support the "LiveGeez" module which is an implementation of
the LiveGe'ez Remote Processing Protocol.

In version 0.20 of this package an OO interface has become more central,
the functional interface is still supported for the functions of primary
utility. The Cstocs.pm module is no longer being maintained as of
version 0.20 as well.

Future: Resyncronization with updated libeth. Most notably this would
allow for a wider range of supported languages for the calendar
conversions.

Module Ethiopic::System:

Creates an Ethiopic "system" object that holds conversion settings.

Module Ethiopic::String:

Implements an object for various character set code conversions.
Character set systems are specified by a canonical name specified
in the LiveGe'ez Remote Processing Protocol. Optional secondary
conversion give the number of conversion possibilities at more
than 68x9x2.

Module Ethiopic::Number:

Implements an object for various character set code conversions.
Character set systems are specified by a canonical name specified
in the LiveGe'ez Remote Processing Protocol. Optional secondary
conversion give the number of conversion possibilities at more
than 68x9x2.

Module Ethiopic::File:

Implements an object for various character set code conversions.
Character set systems are specified by a canonical name specified
in the LiveGe'ez Remote Processing Protocol. Optional secondary
conversion give the number of conversion possibilities at more
than 68x9x2.

Module Ethiopic::Date:

Implements an object for various calendar services. The most
useful methods are EthiopicToGregorian, GregorianToEthiopic, and
isEthiopianHoliday.

Module Ethiopic::Char:

Implements an object for various calendar services. The most
useful methods are EthiopicToGregorian, GregorianToEthiopic, and
isEthiopianHoliday.

Program edate.pl:

Gives you the current date and time with Ethiopic formatting
in the languages Amharic and Tigrigna. Has oodles of options
that can be combined together. See -? you will need an Ethiopic
font and a terminal supporting UTF8.

Program dates.pl:

Performs a number of date conversions demonstrating usage.

Program number.pl:

Converts numbers passed as arguements from English to Ethiopic.

Program string.pl:

Converts string arguements between Ethiopic encoding systems.

Program file.pl:

Opens the "t/Hello.sera" test script and performs the default
conversion.

Installation:
LibEth is required: http://libeth.sourceforge.net

Download the tar.gz, unpack it, change to the Convert-Ethiopic-*
directory. Then do

perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install

Available:
ftp://ftp.geez.org/pub/perl-unicode/ and from your
favorite CPAN site in the authors/id/D/DY/DYACOB/ directory.

Copyright: (c) 1998-2001 Daniel Yacob, [email protected]. All rights
reserved. This library is free software; you can redistribute
it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.