Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] translit-0.1 (beta) Released.

Just FYI, did you know iconv (of glibc / libiconv) also has transliteration support: <?php // prints ["a a "e e], where double quotations represent umlaut. echo iconv("ISO-8859-1", "US-ASCII//TRANSLIT", "¥xe4 a ¥xeb e"), "¥n"; ?> Moriyoshi On 2004/10/25, at 6:23, PECL Announce wrote:

The new PECL package translit-0.1 (beta) has been released at http://pecl.php.net/. Release notes ------------- Initial release, supported transliteration filters include: Cyrillic-to-Latin transliteration, Greek-to-Latin transliteration, Han-to-Latin transliteration, Hebrew-to-Latin transliteration; case converting filters for Greek, Latin and Cyrillic and filters to remove diacriticals from text, normalizing ligatures and normalizing punctuation. Package Info ------------- This extension allows you to transliterate text in non-latin characters (such as Chinese, Cyrillic, Greek etc) to latin characters. Besides the transliteration the extension also contains filters to upper- and lowercase latin, cyrillic and greek, and perform special forms of transliteration such as converting ligatures such as the Norwegian "æ" to "ae" and normalizing punctuation and spacing. Related Links ------------- Package home: http://pecl.php.net/package/translit Changelog: http://pecl.php.net/package-changelog.php?package=translit

    Download: http://pecl.php.net/get/translit-0.1.tgz

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