NAME

Lingua::Han::Cantonese - Retrieve the Cantonese(GuangDongHua) of Chinese character(HanZi).

SYNOPSIS

  use Lingua::Han::Cantonese;

  my $h2p = new Lingua::Han::Cantonese();
  print $h2p->han2Cantonese("我"); # ngo
  my @result = $h2p->han2Cantonese("爱你"); # @result = ('ngoi', 'nei');

  # we can set the tone up
  my $h2p = new Lingua::Han::Cantonese(tone => 1);
  print $h2p->han2Cantonese("我"); #ngo5
  my @result = $h2p->han2Cantonese("爱你"); # @result = ('ngoi3', 'nei5');
  print $h2p->han2Cantonese("林道"); #lam4dou3
  print $h2p->han2Cantonese("I love 余瑞华 a"); #i love jyu4seoi6waa4 a

DESCRIPTION

Retrieve the Cantonese(GuangDongHua) of Chinese character(HanZi).

RETURN VALUE

Usually, it returns its Cantonese/spell. It includes more than 20,000 words (from Unicode.org Unihan.txt, version 4.1.0).

if not(I mean it's not a Chinese character), returns the original word;

OPTION

tone => 1|0

default is 0. if tone is needed, plz set this to 1.

SEE ALSO

Unicode::Unihan, Lingua::Han::PinYin

AUTHOR

Fayland Lam, <fayland at gmail.com>

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests to bug-lingua-han-cantonese at rt.cpan.org, or through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=Lingua-Han-Cantonese. I will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on your bug as I make changes.

SUPPORT

You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.

    perldoc Lingua::Han::Cantonese

You can also look for information at:

• AnnoCPAN: Annotated CPAN documentation

  http://annocpan.org/dist/Lingua-Han-Cantonese

• CPAN Ratings

  http://cpanratings.perl.org/d/Lingua-Han-Cantonese

• RT: CPAN's request tracker

  http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=Lingua-Han-Cantonese

• Search CPAN

  http://search.cpan.org/dist/Lingua-Han-Cantonese

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

COPYRIGHT & LICENSE

Copyright 2005 Fayland Lam, all rights reserved.

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