Re: [libbraille] PHP wrapper

[Hartmut H. <ha...@my...>]

S=E9bastien Sabl=E9 wrote:
> Hi Hartmut,
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> thank you for your work. I have added a link to your wrapper on=20
> "Libbraille - Links" page (it points to http://php-baustelle.de at the =

> moment, I couldn't find the package on http://pecl.php.net/ yet).

It is now released on my php-baustelle PEAR channel:

   http://pear.php-baustelle.de/index.php?package=3Dbraille

A project page with documentation, bug tracking and a public wiki
will be set up later this week as

   http://braille.php-baustelle.de/

> This wrapper should be even more useful when libbraille will provide=20
> Unicode handling (hopefully in next version): some people wanted to use=
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> libbraille for Braille transcription of books provided online; but the =

> current online transcriptor is written in Python which is not supported=
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> by all web hosting services. PHP should help in this aspect.

PHP will only get real unicode handling capabilities with PHP 6 which
is still in its early stages of development. If simple UTF-8 to
iso-8859-1 mapping is sufficient then current PHP 4/5 version will
do though.

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Hartmut Holzgraefe, Senior Support Engineer                            .
MySQL AB, www.mysql.com