NAME

Encode::BetaCode - Perl module for converting to and from Beta Code

VERSION

Version 0.06

SYNOPSIS

    use Encode::BetaCode qw(beta_decode beta_encode);

    my $unicode_text = beta_decode($language, $text);
    
    my $betacode_text = beta_encode($language, $style, $text);

DESCRIPTION

Encode::BetaCode provides functions that convert Beta Code strings to Unicode and reverse. No functions are exported by default.

"use Encode::BetaCode qw(:all)" exports all of them.

FUNCTIONS

beta_decode LANGUAGE, STRING

Converts strings from Beta Code to Unicode.

Supported languages (so far):

-> 'greek'

-> 'greek_punct' (with punctuation conversions)

beta_encode LANGUAGE, STYLE, STRING

Converts strings from Unicode to Beta Code. It can also handle text with combined characters.

Supported languages (so far):

-> 'greek'

-> 'greek_punct' (with punctuation conversions)

Supported styles (so far):

-> 'TLG'

-> 'Perseus'

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests to bug-encode-betacode at rt.cpan.org, or through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=Encode-BetaCode.

I will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on your bug as I make changes.

Also, the source code is available at GitHub: https://github.com/dgkontopoulos/Encode-BetaCode

AUTHOR

Dimitrios - Georgios Kontopoulos, <dgkontopoulos at member.fsf.org>

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

The inspiration to write this module is thanks to Jennie Petoumenou, a member of the Ubuntu-gr community (http://ubuntu-gr.org/).

Her contribution to defining and testing the conversion rules was more than significant.

SEE ALSO

http://www.tlg.uci.edu/encoding/

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beta_code

COPYRIGHT

Copyright 2012-13 Dimitrios - Georgios Kontopoulos.

LICENSE

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