Lingua::ZH::Romanize::Cantonese - Romanization of Cantonese language
use Lingua::ZH::Romanize::Cantonese; my $conv = Lingua::ZH::Romanize::Cantonese->new(); my $roman = $conv->char( $hanji ); printf( "<ruby><rb>%s</rb><rt>%s</rt></ruby>", $hanji, $roman ); my @array = $conv->string( $string ); foreach my $pair ( @array ) { my( $raw, $ruby ) = @$pair; if ( defined $ruby ) { printf( "<ruby><rb>%s</rb><rt>%s</rt></ruby>", $raw, $ruby ); } else { print $raw; } }
This is Cantonese version of Lingua::ZH::Romanize::Pinyin module.
Cantonese is one of the major dialects of Chinese language. Its pronounciation is different from Mandarin Standard's.
This module internally uses a mapping table from Hanji to roman which is based on both of CTLau.tit and CTLauBig5.tit. These are distributed with cxterm. Original files were prepared by Fung Fung Lee.
CTLau.tit
CTLauBig5.tit
cxterm
Sidney Lau's Cantonese transcription scheme as described in his book "Elementary Cantonese", The Government Printer, Hong Kong, 1972.
Storable module is required.
This treats utf8 flag transparently.
Lingua::ZH::Romanize::Pinyin for Standard Chinese
Lingua::JA::Romanize::Japanese for Japanese
Lingua::KO::Romanize::Hangul for Korean
http://www.kawa.net/works/perl/romanize/romanize-e.html
http://linuga-romanize.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/Lingua-ZH-Romanize-Pinyin/
Copyright (c) 2003-2008 Yusuke Kawasaki. All rights reserved.
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To install Lingua::ZH::Romanize::Pinyin, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm
cpanm Lingua::ZH::Romanize::Pinyin
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell install Lingua::ZH::Romanize::Pinyin
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.