NAME

Lingua::JA::Yomi - convert English into Japanese katakana

SYNOPSIS

            

              
              
use utf8;
use Lingua::JA::Yomi;
my $converter = Lingua::JA::Yomi->new;
$converter->convert('aerosmith');
# エアロウスミス
            
          

DESCRIPTION

Lingua::JA::Yomi uses a dictionary to convert. The dictionary defaults to partly modified Bilingual Emacspeak Project dictionary

METHODS

$japanese = $converter->convert('aerosmith');

converts English argument into Japanese. Pass in utf8 flagged string, and get utf8 flagged string.

AUTHOR

Masakazu Ohtsuka (mash) <o.masakazu@gmail.com>

SEE ALSO

Bilingual Emacspeak Project http://www.argv.org/bep/

LICENSE

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. The default dictionary is GPL.