# $File: //member/autrijus/Lingua-Sinica-PerlYuYan/README $ $Author: autrijus $
# $Revision: #2 $ $Change: 2909 $ $DateTime: 2002/01/21 23:42:24 $

This is the README file for Lingua::Sinica::PerlYuYan, a Chinese
lacnauge-pack for perl.

* Installation

Lingua::Sinica::PerlYuYan uses the standard perl module install process:

perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install

* Copyright

Copyright 2001 by Autrijus Tang <autrijus@autrijus.org>.

All rights reserved.  You can redistribute and/or modify
this bundle under the same terms as Perl itself.

See <http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html>.

* Introduction

The Lingua::Sinica::PerlYuYan makes it makes it possible to write
Perl programs in Chinese. (If you have to ask "Why?", please refer to
Lingua::Romana::Perligata for related information.)

This module uses the single-character property of Chinese to disambiguate
between keyword matches; whitespaces could be omitted this way, much
as in real Chinese writings.

The vocabulary is of the WenYanWen (娥, literary text) mode, not
much used in modern Chinese, which prefers the BaiHuaWen (ոܤ, spoken
text) with multiple-syllable words.
