gitpan/Convert-Ethiopic-Lite

Read-only release history for Convert-Ethiopic-Lite About This Release Version 0.01 is released at this time for the benefit of Convert::Braille::Ethiopic which needs the numeric conversion services. Convert::Ethiopic::Lite::Date is complete but not offered at this time whilst it undergoes feature de-creep. Why Convert::Ethiopic::Lite? The Convert::Ethiopic package relies on the libeth shared library / dll which might be too heavy duty and resource consuming for most simple tasks. Also more difficult to get sysadmins to install for people with basic CGI service. Convert::Ethiopic::Lite offers implementation of the libeth algorithm completely in Perl, taking advantage of simplifications that Perl offers. What This Package Can Do At this point numeral system conversion between Western (Arabic, base 10) and Ethiopic. Ethiopic numerals sequences must be in UTF-8. The Ilf-Radix algorithm is applied in representing the Ethiopic sequences. Presently the package works best with Perl 5.8.0, it has not been satisfactorily tested on older versions.