NAME
Lingua::KO::Romanize::Hangul - Romanization of Korean language
SYNOPSIS
use Lingua::KO::Romanize::Hangul;
my $conv = Lingua::KO::Romanize::Hangul->new();
my $roman = $conv->char( $hangul );
printf( "%s", $hangul, $roman );
my @array = $conv->string( $string );
foreach my $pair ( @array ) {
my( $raw, $ruby ) = @$pair;
if ( defined $ruby ) {
printf( "%s", $raw, $ruby );
} else {
print $raw;
}
}
DESCRIPTION
Hangul is phonemic characters of the Korean language. This module
follows the "Revised Romanization of Korean" which was released on July
7, 2000 as the official romanization system in South Korea.
$conv = Lingua::KO::Romanize::Hangul->new();
This constructer methods returns a new object.
$roman = $conv->char( $hangul );
This method returns romanized letters of a Hangul character. It returns
undef when $hanji is not a valid Hangul character. The argument's
encoding must be UTF-8.
$roman = $conv->chars( $string );
This method returns romanized letters of Hangul characters.
@array = $conv->string( $string );
This method returns a array of referenced arrays which are pairs of a
Hangul chacater and its romanized letters.
$array[0] # first Korean character's pair (array)
$array[1][0] # secound Korean character itself
$array[1][1] # its romanized letters
UTF-8 FLAG
This module treats utf8 flag transparently.
SEE ALSO
Lingua::JA::Romanize::Japanese for Japanese
Lingua::ZH::Romanize::Pinyin for Chinese
http://www.korean.go.kr/06_new/rule/rule06.jsp
http://www.kawa.net/works/perl/romanize/romanize-e.html
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
Copyright (c) 1998-2008 Yusuke Kawasaki. All rights reserved. This
program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the same terms as Perl itself.