Encode::Buckwalter version 0.1 ======== NAME Encode::Buckwalter - ASCII-based Arabic Transliteration SYNOPSIS use Encode; use Encode::Buckwalter; $utf = decode( "Buckwalter", "fwbr" ); $bwt = encode( "Buckwalter", "\x{0641}\x{0648}\x{0628}\x{0x631}" ); ABSTRACT In Buckwalter Transliteration, selected letters and non-letter characters from the ASCII (7-bit) set are used to create a one-to-one mapping to the most common Arabic letters and diacritic marks. The Encode::Buckwalter module provides an Encode-compatible means for converting between UTF-8 Arabic and Buckwalter. INSTALLATION To install this module type the following: perl Makefile.PL make make test make install DEPENDENCIES This module requires perl version 5.7.3 or later. COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE Copyright (C) 2008 University of Pennsylvania This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.