NAME

Locale::Object - OO locale information

DESCRIPTION

The Locale::Object group of modules attempts to provide locale-related information in an object-oriented fashion. The information is collated from several sources and provided in an accompanying DBD::SQLite database.

At present, the modules are:

• Locale::Object - make compound objects containing

  country, currency & language objects

• Locale::Object::Country - objects representing countries
• Locale::Object::Continent - objects representing continents
• Locale::Object::Currency - objects representing currencies
• Locale::Object::Currency::Converter - convert between currencies
• Locale::Object::DB - does db lookups for the modules
• Locale::Object::Language - objects representing languages

For more information, see the documentation for those modules. The database is documented in docs/database.pod.

AUTHOR

Earle Martin <hex@cpan.org>

• http://downlode.org/Code/Perl/

CREDITS

Original concept: Pierre Denis (PDENIS). I had much useful assistance from Pierre, Tom Insam (TOMI) - who contributed to my knowledge of DBI - and James Duncan (JDUNCAN). Most of the OO concepts involved I learnt from Damian Conway (DCONWAY)'s excellent book "Object Oriented Perl" (ISBN 1-884777-79-1).

COPYRIGHT

Copyright 2003-2007 Earle Martin. All rights reserved.

This module is released under the same license as Perl itself, and is provided on an "as is" basis. No warranties of any kind are made, either expressed or implied, as to the accuracy and/or utility of any results obtained from its use. However, if you do find something wrong with the results, please let the author know. Thanks.

SEE ALSO

Locale::Codes, for simple conversions between names and ISO codes.