Well, in the following, are your plans cognizant of the fact that many major languages do not incorporate a partition between vowels and consonants?
Do you plan to target only those languages which do? 2021年4月6日(火) 6:50 Mark Aitchison <mark.aitchi...@cyberxpress.co.nz>: > > A little more detail... I realise that stripping accents off is often not > a good thing to do, but at the moment that basically is what I'm after, or > to be more specific: I want to know if the character is a consonant or > vowel... I basically throw away vowels and punctuation in this odd > application. Later I will want to do all sorts of things with input text > that might be utf8 or utf16 or some encoding that (hopefully) I can guess > and translate to the same standard and ultimately spit out on a web page. > > There seem to be many perl modules that do similar things... I want to be > able to distribute my code and not require people to download things from > cpan. I'd like to stick with modules that are as stock standard as standard > can be, i.e. are in a standard cygwin distribution, and are normally found > in other perl environments. In a sense, searching cpan gives me too many > options because that includes modules that might require a customer to do > more than I should ask them to have to do, if it could have been avoided by > me choosing a more standard way of achieving the goal in the first place. > > What I probably should have asked is... > 1. What perl module, that comes with cygwin, is good for telling whether a > letter is a consonant? > 2. Later on I will also need something that makes a reasonable guess as to > what kind of encoding is used in some text (that might not have a helpful > header telling me the answer), with the view to converting it to whatever > encoding I want? I can find software to do this, but I would like to > restrict options to just those a cygwin user can install with the setup > program... if I'm not being too unrealistic about that requirement. > Thanks, Mark > > -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
