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NAME
Lingua::EL::Poly2Mono - Convert polytonic Greek to monotonic
VERSION
This document describes version .02 of Lingua::EL::Poly2Mono, released in October of 2006.
SYNOPSIS
use Lingua::EL::Poly2Mono 'poly2mono'; $monotonic_equivalent = poly2mono $polytonic_text; # OR use Lingua::EL::Poly2Mono; $monotonic_equivalent = Lingua::EL::Poly2Mono::poly2mono $polytonic_text;
DESCRIPTION
This module provides one exportable subroutine, poly2mono, which
takes a traditional polytonic Greek string as its sole argument and
converts in to Modern monotonic. The input string can be either a
Unicode string or a sequence of raw Unicode bytes. The return value will
be in the same format.
To make this clearer:
# Unicode string:
$mono = poly2mono "\x{1f21}"; # eta with dasia
# $mono now contains "\x{03b7}" (unaccented eta)
# raw Unicode bytes:
$mono = poly2mono "\xe1\xbc\xa1";
# $mono now contains "\xce\xb7"
COMPATIBILITY
This module has only been tested with Perl 5.002_01
and 5.8.6 (in 5.002_01 you need parentheses around the argument or
a
use subs 'poly2mono' statement). It uses the Encode module's
is_utf8 function to distinguish
between the two types of input. If this function (or the Encode module)
is not available, the
input will be treated as bytes.
VERSION HISTORY
0.02 (October 2006, this version) Accentuation was corrected for the words ή, για, πιο and πια.
0.01 (April 2006) The first version
AUTHOR
Father Chrysostomos <sprout (at]cpan.org>