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OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/devel:languages:perl/perl-Text-Unidecode?expand=0&rev=2
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RPMSpec
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3.7 KiB
RPMSpec
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# spec file for package perl-Text-Unidecode
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# norootforbuild
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Name: perl-Text-Unidecode
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%define real_name Text-Unidecode
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Summary: US-ASCII transliterations of Unicode text
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Url: http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?Text::Unidecode
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Group: Development/Libraries/Perl
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License: Artistic License
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Version: 0.04
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Release: 1
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Vendor: openSUSE-Education
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Source: %{real_name}-%{version}.tar.bz2
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Requires: perl = %{perl_version}
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BuildRoot: %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-build
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BuildRequires: perl
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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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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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Unidecode's ability to transliterate is limited by two factors:
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* The amount and quality of data in the original
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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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%prep
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%setup -n %{real_name}-%{version}
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%build
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perl Makefile.PL
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make %{?jobs:-j%jobs}
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%check
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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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%clean
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rm -rf %{buildroot}
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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_vendorarch}/auto/Text/Unidecode/.packlist
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%{perl_vendorlib}/Text/Unidecode/*.pm
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%{perl_vendorlib}/Text/Unidecode.pm
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/var/adm/perl-modules/%{name}
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%changelog
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