Source: libtext-unaccent-perl Section: interpreters Priority: optional Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9), perl (>= 5.6.1-7) Maintainer: Loic Dachary (OuoU) Standards-Version: 3.6.1 Package: libtext-unaccent-perl Architecture: any Depends: ${perl:Depends}, ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends} Description: provides functions to remove accents using UTF16 as a pivot Text::Unaccent is a module that provides functions to remove accents from a string. For instance the string été will become ete. The charset of the input string is specified as an argument. The input is converted to UTF-16 using iconv(3), accents are stripped and the result is converted back to the original charset. The iconv -l command on GNU/Linux will show all charset supported.