NAME

Lingua::Han2PinYin - convert Chinese character to its pinyin(phoneticize, spell).

SYNOPSIS

use Lingua::Han2PinYin;

my $hanzi = "ÎÒ"; # the Chinese character
my $pinyin = han2pinyin("$hanzi"); # the corresponding spell
#now $pinyin is 'wo';

DESCRIPTION

There is a Chinese document @ http://www.1313s.com/f/Han2PinYin.html

RESTRICTIONS

for the uncommon character, the distribution of its' coding is NOT continuous. So we can only convert the 10082 common character.

as far as now, we can only convert one word and one word.

RETURN VALUE

if it's a common character, it returns its pinyin/spell.

if not, it returns 'XX';

TODO

deal with sentence.

BUGS

I'm not sure it works at all OS or different versions of perl.

Follows are tested, and welcome to report any bug or correction:

Win2000(SP4) + ActivePerl 5.8.5

AUTHOR

Fayland, fayland@gmail.com