• NAME
• SYNOPSIS
• DESCRIPTION
• METHODS
• AUTHOR
• SEE ALSO

NAME

Text::Unaccent - Remove accents from a string

SYNOPSIS

  use Text::Unaccent;

  $unaccented = unac_string($charset, $string);
  $unaccented = unac_string_utf16($string);

DESCRIPTION

Text::Unaccent is a module that remove accents from a string. unac_string converts the input string from the specified charset to UTF-16 and call unac_string_utf16 to return the unaccented equivalent. The conversion from and to UTF-16 is done with iconv(1).

METHODS

$unaccented = unac_string($charset, $string)

Return the unaccented equivalent of the string $string. The character set of $string is specified by the $charset argument. The returned string is coded using the same character set. Valid values for the $charset argument are character sets known by iconv(1). Under GNU/Linux try iconv --list for a complete list.

$unaccented = unac_string_utf16($string)

Return the unaccented equivalent of the string $string. The character set of $string must be UTF-16.

AUTHOR

Loic Dachary (loic@senga.org) http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/unac/

SEE ALSO

iconv(1).