NAME
Lingua::YI::Romanize - Transliterate Yiddish from Hebrew to Latin
script
SYNOPSIS
use Lingua::YI::Romanize;
my $romanized_text = Lingua::YI::Romanize->yivo2latn($text);
my $phonetic_text = Lingua::YI::Romanize->yivo2ipa($text);
DESCRIPTION
Lingua::YI::Romanize transliterates Yiddish text written in Hebrew
script to the Latin script or to IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet).
CONSTRUCTOR
new()
Creates a new object which maintains internal storage areas for the
Lingua::YI::Romanize computation.
METHODS
yivo2latn($text)
Returns a string transliterated to Latin characters. Transliteration
follows YIVO.
$text must be in character mode. $text is first normalized to NFC
(Unicode Normalization Form Composed), then normalized to Yiddish
precomposed characters.
yivo2ipa($text)
Returns a string transliterated to IPA. Transliteration follows WWS
(The Worlds Writing Systems).
$text must be in character mode. $text is first normalized to NFC
(Unicode Normalization Form Composed), then normalized to Yiddish
precomposed characters.
EXPORT
None by design.
STABILITY
Until release of version 1.00 the included methods, names of methods
and their interfaces are subject to change.
Beginning with version 1.00 the specification will be stable, i.e. not
changed between major versions.
SOURCE REPOSITORY
http://github.com/wollmers/Lingua-YI-Romanize
AUTHOR
Helmut Wollmersdorfer <
[email protected]>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright 2016 Helmut Wollmersdorfer
LICENSE
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the same terms as Perl itself.
SEE ALSO
