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authorEric Bavier <bavier@member.fsf.org>2015-03-17 11:48:07 -0500
committerEric Bavier <bavier@member.fsf.org>2015-03-17 13:03:50 -0500
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gnu: Add Text-Unidecode.
* gnu/packages/perl.scm (perl-text-unidecode): New variable.
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@@ -3433,6 +3433,29 @@ you want to do full file globbing use the File::Glob module instead.")
(description "Text::SimpleTable draws simple ASCII tables.")
(license artistic2.0)))
+(define-public perl-text-unidecode
+ (package
+ (name "perl-text-unidecode")
+ (version "1.23")
+ (source
+ (origin
+ (method url-fetch)
+ (uri (string-append "mirror://cpan/authors/id/S/SB/SBURKE/"
+ "Text-Unidecode-" version ".tar.gz"))
+ (sha256
+ (base32
+ "1mnnq57amh0bs6z2ggkmgnn4hz8mqc9lfhr66xv2bsnlvhg7c7fb"))))
+ (build-system perl-build-system)
+ (home-page "http://search.cpan.org/dist/Text-Unidecode")
+ (synopsis "Provide plain ASCII transliterations of Unicode text")
+ (description "Text::Unidecode provides a function, unidecode(...) that
+takes Unicode data and tries to represent it in US-ASCII characters (i.e., the
+universally displayable characters between 0x00 and 0x7F). The representation
+is almost always an attempt at transliteration-- i.e., conveying, in Roman
+letters, the pronunciation expressed by the text in some other writing
+system.")
+ (license (package-license perl))))
+
(define-public perl-time-local
(package
(name "perl-time-local")