Transliteration is the conversion of letters from one alphabet to another one, like from Greek to Latin. But it may as well be just a simplification within one alphabet, for example omitting any diacritics found in that alphabet or substituting special characters with a sequence of characters without diacritics.

Lingua::Lid is a Perl extension that implements an interface to the lid C/C++ library. As such, it makes lid's language and character encoding identification features available to any Perl application or module.

The following code snippets show a few usage examples, introducing both basic usage and Lingua::Lid's capabilities:

lidc is a command line application for Unix-like operating systems (Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD) that allows you to identify the language and character encoding of an input. Based on the lid library, it provides accurate identification results and high performance. However, lidc implements a significant amount of new features on top of those provided by lid, namely the parsing of common input formats. These include: