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- updated to 1.22
* RELEASE 1.22. (The dev release works, so this is a version bump.)
* See notes for 2014-07-25, because this is the first public release
with significant changes since 2001!
2014-07-25 Sean M. Burke sburke@cpan.org
* !DEVELOPER RELEASE!
* !Release 1.20_01!
* Many bugfixes. Thanks especially to Tomaž Šolc!
* Yet more *.t files added for improved sanity checking.
* Shuffling around the internals of Unidecode.pm
* Putting in some vacuous 0x__.pm files where
previously there would just be a load failure
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/devel:languages:perl/perl-Text-Unidecode?expand=0&rev=11
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%define real_name Text-Unidecode
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Name: perl-Text-Unidecode
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Version: 1.01
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Version: 1.22
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Release: 0
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Summary: US-ASCII transliterations of Unicode text
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License: Artistic-1.0
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%define cpan_name Text-Unidecode
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Summary: Provide plain ASCII transliterations of Unicode text
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License: Artistic-1.0 or GPL-1.0+
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Group: Development/Libraries/Perl
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Url: http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?Text::Unidecode
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Source: http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/S/SB/SBURKE/%{real_name}-%{version}.tar.gz
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Url: http://search.cpan.org/dist/Text-Unidecode/
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Source: http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/S/SB/SBURKE/%{cpan_name}-%{version}.tar.gz
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BuildArch: noarch
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BuildRoot: %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-build
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BuildRequires: perl
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BuildRequires: perl-macros
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BuildRoot: %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-build
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%{perl_requires}
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%description
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It often happens that you have non-Roman text data in Unicode, but you can't
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display it -- usually because you're trying to show it to a user via an
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application that doesn't support Unicode, or because the fonts you need aren't
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accessible. You could represent the Unicode characters as "???????" or
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"\15BA\15A0\1610...", but that's nearly useless to the user who actually wants
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to read what the text says.
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It often happens that you have non-Roman text data in Unicode, but you
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can't display it-- usually because you're trying to show it to a user via
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an application that doesn't support Unicode, or because the fonts you need
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aren't accessible. You could represent the Unicode characters as "???????"
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or "\15BA\15A0\1610...", but that's nearly useless to the user who actually
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wants to read what the text says.
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What Text::Unidecode provides is a function, unidecode(...) that takes Unicode
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data and tries to represent it in US-ASCII characters (i.e., the universally
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displayable characters between 0x00 and 0x7F). The representation is almost
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always an attempt at transliteration -- i.e., conveying, in Roman letters, the
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pronunciation expressed by the text in some other writing system. (See the
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example in the synopsis.)
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What Text::Unidecode provides is a function, 'unidecode(...)' that takes
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Unicode data and tries to represent it in US-ASCII characters (i.e., the
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universally displayable characters between 0x00 and 0x7F). The
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representation is almost always an attempt at _transliteration_-- i.e.,
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conveying, in Roman letters, the pronunciation expressed by the text in
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some other writing system. (See the example in the synopsis.)
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Unidecode's ability to transliterate is limited by two factors:
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NOTE:
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* The amount and quality of data in the original
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To make sure your perldoc/Pod viewing setup for viewing this page is
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working: The six-letter word "r<>sum<75>" should look like "resume" with an "/"
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accent on each "e".
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So if you have Hebrew data that has no vowel points in it, then Unidecode
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cannot guess what vowels should appear in a pronounciation. S f y hv n vwls n
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th npt, y wn't gt ny vwls n th tpt. (This is a specific application of the
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general principle of "Garbage In, Garbage Out".)
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* Basic limitations in the Unidecode design
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Writing a real and clever transliteration algorithm for any single
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language usually requires a lot of time, and at least a passable knowledge of
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the language involved. But Unicode text can convey more languages than I could
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possibly learn (much less create a transliterator for) in the entire rest of my
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lifetime. So I put a cap on how intelligent Unidecode could be, by insisting
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that it support only context-insensitive transliteration. That means missing
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the finer details of any given writing system, while still hopefully being
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useful.
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Unidecode, in other words, is quick and dirty. Sometimes the output is not so
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dirty at all: Russian and Greek seem to work passably; and while Thaana
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(Divehi, AKA Maldivian) is a definitely non-Western writing system, setting up
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a mapping from it to Roman letters seems to work pretty well. But sometimes the
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output is very dirty: Unidecode does quite badly on Japanese and Thai.
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If you want a smarter transliteration for a particular language than Unidecode
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provides, then you should look for (or write) a transliteration algorithm
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specific to that language, and apply it instead of (or at least before)
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applying Unidecode.
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In other words, Unidecode's approach is broad (knowing about dozens of writing
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systems), but shallow (not being meticulous about any of them).
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Author:
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-------
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Sean M. Burke sburke@cpan.org
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For further tests, and help if that doesn't work, see below, the /A POD
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ENCODING TEST manpage.
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%prep
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%setup -q -n %{real_name}-%{version}
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%setup -q -n %{cpan_name}-%{version}
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%build
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perl Makefile.PL
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make %{?_smp_mflags}
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%{__perl} Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=vendor
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%{__make} %{?_smp_mflags}
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%check
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make test
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%{__make} test
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%install
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%perl_make_install
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%perl_process_packlist
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%perl_gen_filelist
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%files
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%defattr(-, root, root)
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%doc ChangeLog README MANIFEST TODO.txt
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%doc %{_mandir}/man?/*
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%dir %{perl_vendorarch}/auto/Text
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%dir %{perl_vendorarch}/auto/Text/Unidecode
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%dir %{perl_vendorlib}/Text
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%dir %{perl_vendorlib}/Text/Unidecode
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%{perl_vendorlib}/Text/Unidecode/*.pm
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%{perl_vendorlib}/Text/Unidecode.pm
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%files -f %{name}.files
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%defattr(-,root,root,755)
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%doc ChangeLog LICENSE README TODO.txt
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%changelog
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