NAME

       Text::Undiacritic - remove diacritics from a string

VERSION

       This document describes Text::Undiacritic 0.01

SYNOPSIS

           use Text::Undiacritic qw(undiacritic);
           $ascii_string = undiacritic( $czech_string );

DESCRIPTION

       Changes characters with diacritics into their base characters.

       Also changes into base character in cases where UNICODE does not provide a decomposition.

       E.g. all characters '... WITH STROKE' like 'LATIN SMALL LETTER L WITH STROKE' do not have
       a decomposition. In the latter case the result will be 'LATIN SMALL LETTER L'.

       Removing diacritics is useful for matching text independent of spelling variants.

SUBROUTINES/METHODS

   undiacritic
           $ascii_string = undiacritic( $characters );

       Removes diacritics from $characters and returns a simplified character string.

       The input string must be in character modus, i.e. UNICODE code points.

DIAGNOSTICS

CONFIGURATION AND ENVIRONMENT

DEPENDENCIES

       •   version

       •   charnames

       •   Unicode::Normalize

INCOMPATIBILITIES

BUGS AND LIMITATIONS

       There is no experience if this module gives useful results for scripts other than Latin.

AUTHOR

       Helmut Wollmersdorfer "<WOLLMERS@cpan.org>"

LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (c) 2007, Helmut Wollmersdorfer "<WOLLMERS@cpan.org>".  All rights reserved.

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