NAME

 Text::StripAccents - removes accented & special characters from strings

SYNOPSIS

 use Text::StripAccents;

 my $Stripaccent = Text::StripAccents->new();

 my $convertedString = $StripAccents->strip($unconvertedString);

OR

 use Text::StripAccents;

 stripaccents($string); 

DESCRIPTION

This simple module takes accented characters and replaces them with their anglicised ASCII counterparts, e.g. Ü becomes U.

LICENSE

Copyright 2005 by Charles Colbourn, all rights reserved. This program is free software, you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

AUTHOR

Charles Colbourn - charlesc@g0n.net

(Character mapping hash supplied by Nigel Currie).