1This module converts Japanese text in UTF-8 (or romaji in ascii) to 2number, AND vice versa. Though this pod is in English and all examples are 3in romaji to make https://metacpan.org/ happy, this module does accept 4Japanese in UTF-8. Try the code below to see it. 5 6 perl -MLingua::JA::Numbers \ 7 -e '$y="\x{4e8c}\x{5343}\x{4e94}"; printf "(C) %d Dan Kogai\n", ja2num($y)' 8 9CAVEAT 10 11DO NOT BE CONFUSED WITH Lingua::JA::Number by Mike Schilli. This module is 12far more comprehensive. As of 0.03, it even does its to_string() upon 13request. 14