NAME

Text::Emoticon::Unicode - Text::Emoticon filter for Unicode emoticons

VERSION

This document describes Text::Emoticon::Unicode version 0.02.

SYNOPSIS

    use Text::Emoticon;

    my $emoticon = Text::Emoticon->new('Unicode');

    my $msg = $emoticon->filter('Howdy :)');  # returns 'Howdy ☺'

DESCRIPTION

This is a Text::Emoticon filter for converting ASCII emoticons to their Unicode emoticon character equivalent. Unlike the other Text::Emoticon filters, this one does not use images from an external site or even use any HTML. Instead it replaces a series of characters like :-) with a single character like ☺.

Currently only the Unicode 1.1 emoticons ☺ and ☹ are supported, but an option to enable the vast range of Unicode 6.0 emoticons will be added in a future version. An option to use numeric character references for HTML or XML will also be added, but it’s easy to use HTML::Entities or XML::Entities instead.

AUTHOR

Nick Patch <patch@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

© 2012 Nick Patch

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