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author | Anton Berezin <tobez@FreeBSD.org> | 2004-12-15 06:58:00 +0000 |
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committer | Anton Berezin <tobez@FreeBSD.org> | 2004-12-15 06:58:00 +0000 |
commit | 4b022ecefd888819f183c69af847fe97fe170087 (patch) | |
tree | c7685fc617c0365efff620c2502dcc8b09126612 /converters/p5-Text-Unidecode/pkg-descr | |
parent | e54328b47e67acbb3f9f600086ca7bfdcbecdd47 (diff) | |
download | ports-4b022ecefd888819f183c69af847fe97fe170087.tar.gz ports-4b022ecefd888819f183c69af847fe97fe170087.zip |
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diff --git a/converters/p5-Text-Unidecode/pkg-descr b/converters/p5-Text-Unidecode/pkg-descr new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..7398382006c9 --- /dev/null +++ b/converters/p5-Text-Unidecode/pkg-descr @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +It often happens that you have non-Roman text data in Unicode, but you +can't display it -- usually because you're trying to show it to a user +via an application that doesn't support Unicode, or because the fonts +you need aren't accessible. You could represent the Unicode characters +as "???????" or "\15BA\15A0\1610...", but that's nearly useless to the +user who actually wants to read what the text says. + +What Text::Unidecode provides is a function, unidecode(...) that takes +Unicode data and tries to represent it in US-ASCII characters. + +WWW: http://search.cpan.org/dist/Text-Unidecode |