NAME

Lingua::JA::Romanize::MeCab - Romanization of Japanese language with MeCab

SYNOPSIS

    use Lingua::JA::Romanize::MeCab;

    my $conv = Lingua::JA::Romanize::MeCab->new();
    my $roman = $conv->char( $kanji );
    printf( "<ruby><rb>%s</rb><rt>%s</rt></ruby>", $kanji, $roman );

    my @array = $conv->string( $string );
    foreach my $pair ( @array ) {
        my( $raw, $ruby ) = @$pair;
        if ( defined $ruby ) {
            printf( "<ruby><rb>%s</rb><rt>%s</rt></ruby>", $raw, $ruby );
        } else {
            print $raw;
        }
    }

DESCRIPTION

This is MeCab version of Lingua::JA::Romanize::Japanese module. MeCab's Perl binding, MeCab.pm, is required.

UTF-8 DICTIONARY

If MeCab's dictionary is generated with UTF8, --with-charset=utf8, use Lingua::JA::Romanize::MeCab::UTF8->new() instead of Lingua::JA::Romanize::MeCab->new().

SEE ALSO

Lingua::JA::Romanize::Japanese

http://mecab.sourceforge.jp/ (Japanese)

AUTHOR

Yusuke Kawasaki, http://www.kawa.net/

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (c) 2006-2007 Yusuke Kawasaki. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.