$Header: /cvsroot/unac/Text-Unaccent/README,v 1.6 2001/07/18 17:07:16 loic Exp $

What is it ?
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Text::Unaccent is a module that provides functions to remove accents
from a string.  For instance the string t will become ete.  The
charset of the input string is specified as an argument. The input is
converted to UTF-16 using iconv(3), accents are stripped and the
result is converted back to the original charset. The iconv --list
command on GNU/Linux will show all charset supported.

Text-Unaccent-1.04 has the same unac.[ch] files than unac-1.4.0

Where is the documentation ?
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Try man Text::Unaccent

How to install it ?
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For OS that are not GNU/Linux we recommend to use the iconv library
provided by Bruno Haible <haible@clisp.cons.org> at
ftp://ftp.ilog.fr/pub/Users/haible/gnu/libiconv-1.3.tar.gz. Under
Solaris-2.6 the native iconv library is not able to convert from
ISO-8859-1 to UTF-16 directly, it must do ISO-8859-1 -> UTF-8 ->
UTF-16 and vice versa.

perl Makefile.PL

make all

make test

make install

A simple example
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use Text::Unaccent;

unac_string("ISO-8859-1", "t") => "ete"

Where can I download it ?
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The main distribution site is http://www.senga.org/unac/.

Loic Dachary
loic@senga.org
http://www.senga.org/
