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NAME

Locale::Places - Translate places between different languages using http://download.geonames.org/

VERSION

Version 0.13

SYNOPSIS

Translates places between different languages, for example London is Londres in French.

METHODS

new

Create a Locale::Places object.

Takes one optional parameter, directory, which tells the object where to directory containing GB.sql and US.sql If that parameter isn't given, the module will attempt to find the databases, but that can't be guaranteed. Any other options are passed to the underlying database driver.

translate

Translate a city into a different language. Takes one mandatory argument: 'place'. It also takes two other arguments: 'from' and 'to', at least one of which must be given. If neither $to nor $from is given, the code makes a best guess based on the environment. If no translation can be found, returns place in the original language. Takes an optional argument 'country' which can be either GB (the default) or US which is the country of that 'place' is in.

use Locale::Places;

# Prints "Douvres"
print Locale::Places->new()->translate({ place => 'Dover', country => 'GB', from => 'en', to => 'fr' });

# Prints "Douvres" if we're working on a French system
print Locale::Places->new()->translate('Dover');

AUTOLOAD

Translate to the given language, where the routine's name will be the target language.

# Prints 'Virginie', since that's Virginia in French
print $places->fr({ place => 'Virginia', from => 'en', country => 'US' });

AUTHOR

Nigel Horne, <njh at bandsman.co.uk>

BUGS

Only supports places in GB and US at the moment.

Canterbury no longer translates to Cantorbéry in French. This is a problem with the data, which has this line:

16324587	2653877	fr	Canterbury	1

which overrides the translation by setting the 'isPreferredName' flag

Can't specify below country level. For example, is Virginia a state or a town in Illinois or one in Minnesota?

SEE ALSO

Locale::Country::Multilingual to translate country names.

SUPPORT

You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.

perldoc Locale::Places

You can also look for information at:

LICENCE AND COPYRIGHT

Copyright 2020-2024 Nigel Horne.

This program is released under the following licence: GPL2

This product uses data from geonames, http://download.geonames.org.