Hi all,

I've searched CPAN and PerlMonks for any hints on proved and tested modules that can romanize non-latin Unicode, i.e. transform a given Unicode string into its phonetic notation described in latin characters. With Unicode::Transliterate and Text::Unidecode I found two that seem to do what I need - at least according to the examples contained in their documentation.

But I'm surprised by their latest version numbers and release dates: 0.3 from 13 Jul 2001 and 0.04 from 15 Jul 2002, respectively. Some romanization schemes (e.g. for Korean script) are much newer so I wonder: Are these modules still state-of-the-art? Are there perhaps some more reliable ones hidden in the CPAN from my eyes / search terms?

Thanks for your advice!

In reply to Transliterating non-latin Unicode - a job for Perl? by Locutus

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