On Thu, 5 Nov 2009 14:50:56 +1030
David Purton <dcpur...@marshwiggle.net> wrote:
> Can anyone suggest a simple way to strip vowels out of utf-8 encoded
> hebrew text, leaving just the consenants?
>
> i.e., given something like בָָּ֟֟רָא, pipe it through something so that the
> output is ברא. The unicode characters <U+0591> to <U+05C7> ideally
> should be stripped. This includes accents, etc.
#! /usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use Encode;
while (<>) {
$_ = Encode::decode('utf-8', $_);
s/[\x{0591}-\x{05C7}]//g;
print Encode::encode('utf-8', $_);
}
This works (tested on your example, and on a sample from here:
http://www.mechon-mamre.org/c/ct/c0101.htm).
Celejar
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