Transliteration with Perl Module Lingua::Translit

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Lingua::Translit is a Perl module that transliterates text from one writing system to another based on a variety of standards.

The Lingua::Translit Perl module provides a simple to use object-oriented API as well as the command line application "translit".

Additional tools allow you to extend the module and write your own rule sets in an XML format and integrate them easily. For the extension have a look at the Developer Documentation for details, examples and templates.

Features

Standards Compliant

Lingua::Translit supports a large set of standards like ISO 9, DIN 31634 or GOST 7.79.

Portable

Lingua::Translit is known to work on a large set of operating systems, including Microsoft Windows, Linux and FreeBSD.

Simple API

The API is object oriented, simple and easy to understand.

Extendable

More transliteration standards can either be added by yourself or by our linguists upon request.

Open Source

Lingua::Translit is both Open Source and Free Software.

Unicode Aware

Lingua::Translit provides full UTF-8 support.

Dependency Free

Lingua::Translit does not depend on any other third party Perl modules.

Supported Transliteration Standards

The transliteration is done according to given transliteration standards defined by various national or international organisations, like ISO, DIN or GOST. Additionally common national transliteration rules can be applied.

The following standards are currently handled by Lingua::Translit:

Documentation

Lingua::Translit's documentation is available on CPAN:

• Lingua::Translit module
• Lingua::Translit::Tables module
• translit command line application

To extend Lingua::Translit, have a look at the Developer Documentation.

Download

The latest release of Lingua::Translit is Lingua-Translit-0.29.tar.gz (108.67 kB).

If you are running one of the following distributions/operating systems, you may use its tools to install Lingua::Translit, although the version(s) provided may not reflect the latest release:

• Alpine Linux
• Arch Linux
• Cygwin
• Debian
• DragonFly BSD
• Fedora
• FreeBSD
• Gentoo Linux
• MacPorts
• NetBSD
• OpenSUSE
• Ubuntu

License

Lingua::Translit is both open source and free software, covered by the same license terms as Perl itself, which means you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of either:

1. the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 1, or (at your option) any later version, or
2. the "Artistic License".

Copyright

Copyright (©) 2008 Alex Linke & Rona Linke
Copyright (©) 2009-2016 Lingua-Systems Software GmbH
Copyright (©) 2016-2017 Netzum Sorglos, Lingua-Systems Software GmbH
Copyright (©) 2017-2024 Netzum Sorglos Software GmbH

Credits

Lingua::Translit is actively developed not only by its developers at Netzum Sorglos, but also by contributors from the Perl community:

• Thanks to Dr. Daniel Eiwen, Romanisches Seminar, Universität Köln for his help on Romanian transliteration ("Common RON").
• Thanks to Dimitry Smal and Rusar Publishing for contributing the "ALA-LC RUS" transliteration table.
• Thanks to Ahmed Elsheshtawy for his help implementing the "Common ARA" Arabic transliteration.
• Thanks to Dusan Vuckovic for contributing the "ISO/R 9" transliteration table.
• Thanks to Ștefan Suciu for contributing the "ISO 8859-16 RON" transliteration table.
• Thanks to Philip Kime for contributing the "IAST Devanagari" and "Devanagari IAST" transliteration tables.
• Thanks to Nikola Lečić for contributing the "BGN/PCGN RUS Standard" and "BGN/PCGN RUS Strict" transliteration tables.