pinyinify
    by Simon Lau
    http://github.com/superslau/pinyinify/tree/master

== DESCRIPTION:

Transliterate from Mandarin to Pinyin

== FEATURES/PROBLEMS:

Pinyinify::Transliterator converts mandarin characters into PinYin. It comes with a database of 25479 Chinese characters.

TODO: Make it not dependant on ActiveSupport (or make it >Ruby 1.9.1 only)

== SYNOPSIS:

  t = Pinyinify::Transliterator.new
  
  t.transliterate("最長的電影") 
  
  should hopefully result in
    
    "zui chang de dian ying"
  
== REQUIREMENTS:

ActiveSupport

== INSTALL:

sudo gem install superslau-pinyinify --source=http://gems.github.com

== LICENSE:

(The MIT License)

Copyright (c) 2009 Simon Lau
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