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NAME

       Lingua::Translit - transliterates text between writing systems

SYNOPSIS

         use Lingua::Translit;

         my $tr = new Lingua::Translit("ISO 843");

         my $text_tr = $tr->translit("character oriented string");

         if ($tr->can_reverse()) {
           $text_tr = $tr->translit_reverse("character oriented string");
         }

DESCRIPTION

       Lingua::Translit can be used to convert text from one writing system to another, based on
       national or international transliteration tables.  Where possible a reverse
       transliteration is supported.

       The term "transliteration" describes the conversion of text from one writing system or
       alphabet to another one.  The conversion is ideally unique, mapping one character to
       exactly one character, so the original spelling can be reconstructed.  Practically this is
       not always the case and one single letter of the original alphabet can be transcribed as
       two, three or even more letters.

       Furthermore there is more than one transliteration scheme for one writing system.
       Therefore it is an important and necessary information, which scheme will be or has been
       used to transliterate a text, to work integrative and be able to reconstruct the original
       data.

       Reconstruction is a problem though for non-unique transliterations, if no language
       specific knowledge is available as the resulting clusters of letters may be ambiguous.
       For example, the Greek character "PSI" maps to "ps", but "ps" could also result from the
       sequence "PI", "SIGMA" since "PI" maps to "p" and "SIGMA" maps to s.  If a transliteration
       table leads to ambiguous conversions, the provided table cannot be used reverse.

       Otherwise the table can be used in both directions, if appreciated.  So if ISO 9 is
       originally created to convert Cyrillic letters to the Latin alphabet, the reverse
       transliteration will transform Latin letters to Cyrillic.

METHODS

   new("name of table")
       Initializes an object with the specific transliteration table, e.g. "ISO 9".

   translit("character oriented string")
       Transliterates the given text according to the object's transliteration table.  Returns
       the transliterated text.

   translit_reverse("character oriented string")
       Transliterates the given text according to the object's transliteration table, but uses it
       the other way round. For example table ISO 9 is a transliteration scheme for the
       conversion of Cyrillic letters to the Latin alphabet. So if used reverse, Latin letters
       will be mapped to Cyrillic ones.

       Returns the transliterated text.

   can_reverse()
       Returns true (1), iff reverse transliteration is possible.  False (0) otherwise.

   name()
       Returns the name of the chosen transliteration table, e.g. "ISO 9".

   desc()
       Returns a description for the transliteration, e.g. "ISO 9:1995, Cyrillic to Latin".

SUPPORTED TRANSLITERATIONS

       Cyrillic
           ALA-LC RUS, not reversible, ALA-LC:1997, Cyrillic to Latin, Russian

           ISO 9, reversible, ISO 9:1995, Cyrillic to Latin

           ISO/R 9, reversible, ISO 9:1954, Cyrillic to Latin

           DIN 1460 RUS, reversible, DIN 1460:1982, Cyrillic to Latin, Russian

           DIN 1460 UKR, reversible, DIN 1460:1982, Cyrillic to Latin, Ukrainian

           DIN 1460 BUL, reversible, DIN 1460:1982, Cyrillic to Latin, Bulgarian

           Streamlined System BUL, not reversible, The Streamlined System: 2006, Cyrillic to
           Latin, Bulgarian

           GOST 7.79 RUS, reversible, GOST 7.79:2000 (table B), Cyrillic to Latin, Russian

           GOST 7.79 RUS OLD, not reversible, GOST 7.79:2000 (table B), Cyrillic to Latin with
           support for Old Russian (pre 1918), Russian

           GOST 7.79 UKR, reversible, GOST 7.79:2000 (table B), Cyrillic to Latin, Ukrainian

           BGN/PCGN RUS Standard, not reversible, BGN/PCGN:1947 (Standard Variant), Cyrillic to
           Latin, Russian

           BGN/PCGN RUS Strict, not reversible, BGN/PCGN:1947 (Strict Variant), Cyrillic to
           Latin, Russian

       Greek
           ISO 843, not reversible, ISO 843:1997, Greek to Latin

           DIN 31634, not reversible, DIN 31634:1982, Greek to Latin

           Greeklish, not reversible, Greeklish (Phonetic), Greek to Latin

       Latin
           Common CES, not reversible, Czech without diacritics

           Common DEU, not reversible, German without umlauts

           Common POL, not reversible, Unaccented Polish

           Common RON, not reversible, Romanian without diacritics as commonly used

           Common SLK, not reversible, Slovak without diacritics

           Common SLV, not reversible, Slovenian without diacritics

           ISO 8859-16 RON, reversible, Romanian with appropriate diacritics

       Arabic
           Common ARA, not reversible, Common Romanization of Arabic

       Sanskrit
           IAST Devanagari, not reversible, IAST Romanization to Devanāgarī

           Devanagari IAST, not reversible, Devanāgarī to IAST Romanization

ADDING NEW TRANSLITERATIONS

       In case you want to add your own transliteration tables to Lingua::Translit, have a look
       at the developer documentation at
       <https://www.netzum-sorglos.de/software/lingua-translit/developer-documentation.html>.

       A template of a transliteration table is provided as well (xml/template.xml) so you can
       easily start developing.

RESTRICTIONS

       Lingua::Translit is suited to handle Unicode and utilizes comparisons and regular
       expressions that rely on code points.  Therefore, any input is supposed to be character
       oriented ("use utf8;", ...) instead of byte oriented.

       However, if your data is byte oriented, be sure to pass it UTF-8 encoded to translit()
       and/or translit_reverse() - it will be converted internally.

BUGS

       None known.

       Please report bugs using CPAN's request tracker at
       <https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=Lingua-Translit>.

SEE ALSO

       Lingua::Translit::Tables, Encode, perlunicode

       "translit"'s manpage

       <http://www.netzum-sorglos.de/software/lingua-translit/>

CREDITS

       Thanks to Dr. Daniel Eiwen, Romanisches Seminar, Universitaet Koeln for his help on
       Romanian transliteration.

       Thanks to Dmitry Smal and Rusar Publishing for contributing the "ALA-LC RUS"
       transliteration table.

       Thanks to Ahmed Elsheshtawy for his help implementing the "Common ARA" Arabic
       transliteration.

       Thanks to Dusan Vuckovic for contributing the "ISO/R 9" transliteration table.

       Thanks to Ștefan Suciu for contributing the "ISO 8859-16 RON" transliteration table.

       Thanks to Philip Kime for contributing the "IAST Devanagari" and "Devanagari IAST"
       transliteration tables.

       Thanks to Nikola Lečić for contributing the "BGN/PCGN RUS Standard" and "BGN/PCGN RUS
       Strict" transliteration tables.

AUTHORS

       Alex Linke <alinke@netzum-sorglos.de>

       Rona Linke <rlinke@netzum-sorglos.de>

LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2007-2008 Alex Linke and Rona Linke

       Copyright (C) 2009-2016 Lingua-Systems Software GmbH

       Copyright (C) 2016-2017 Netzum Sorglos, Lingua-Systems Software GmbH

       Copyright (C) 2017-2022 Netzum Sorglos Software GmbH

       This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same
       terms as Perl itself.