$Header: /cvsroot/unac/Text-Unaccent/README,v 1.2 2000/09/28 16:46:08 loic Exp $ What is it ? ------------ Text::Unaccent is a module that provides functions to remove accents from a string. For instance the string été 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-1.01 has the same unac.[ch] files than unac-1.1.0 Where is the documentation ? ---------------------------- Try man Text::Unaccent How to install it ? ------------------- perl Makefile.PL make all make test make install A simple example ---------------- use Text::Unaccent; unac_string("ISO-8859-1", "été") => "ete" Where can I download it ? ------------------------- The main distribution site is http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/unac/ and the tarball is Text-Unaccent.?.??.tar.gz. Loic Dachary loic@senga.org http://www.senga.org/