Lingua/DE/ASCII version 0.03 ============================ 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 up to 5 minutes as it tests with a huge german word list. DEPENDENCIES This module requires these other modules and libraries: Test::More (only for testing) Furthermore it requires a (german) locale settings supporting ISO-Latin-1. 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.