The following module was proposed for inclusion in the Module List:
modid: Lingua::DE::Mutations
DSLIP: idpfp
description: Transliterate german mutations with ASCII
userid: HOLSTEN (Andrea Holstein)
chapterid: 11 (String_Lang_Text_Proc)
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rationale:
I like to write german text in pure ASCII. So I transliterates
mutation characters like 'ä', 'ö', 'ü', 'á' or 'ß' with 'ae',
'oe', 'ue', 'a', 'ss'.
I think it's the normal style for a programmer, but for
non-programmers it's hard to read. So I'd like to have a module
which creates from a standard german text (with mutations) a
7-bit-ASCII code AND reverse.
Unfortunately the reverse 'ae' => 'ä' transliteration is a little
bit more complicated than only a s/ae/ä/g - statement. There are
many exceptions like 'Abenteuer' != 'Abenteür', 'Bauer' != 'Baür',
'Clique' != 'Cliüe', 'Kongruenz' != 'Kongrünz', ... . Many words
from foreign languages like 'blue' should not become 'blü' and even
many latin abbrevations ending on 'ae' make problems. Obviously, to
decide when an 'ss' is in reality an 'ß' and when not, is the most
difficult.
There are enough reasons to write a perl module for and to throw
away all these 4-5 liners which had never worked right.
I'm not sure about the namespace. I choosed, Mutations, because
[äüö] are in fact mutations. From a non strict linguistic point
of view, [áàó...] are mutations, too. Of course 'ß' is not - but
it's only one character :-). T prefer the plural form Mutations,
because the module never cares about only one of the characters -
always of all.
On the other hand, Mutations has a very tough assosziation to
biology. Other possible names could be Lingua::DE::ASCII,
Lingua::DE::ASCIICharacters, Lingua::DE::ProgrammersStyle,
Lingua::DE::Umlaute or whatever you will suggest. (Even
Lingua::DE::Goethe is a possible name - as the 'ae', 'oe', ...
writing is typical for the time Goethe had lived :D)
enteredby: HOLSTEN (Andrea Holstein)
enteredon: Sat Feb 9 19:56:29 2002 GMT
The resulting entry would be:
Lingua::DE::
::Mutations idpfp Transliterate german mutations with ASCII HOLSTEN
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