Experimental Lua bindings for liblouis

These bindings allow you to use Liblouis from within Lua.

The bindings are compiled against any lua (between 5.1 and 5.4) that is found on your system.

Currently they are highly experimental, pull requests are welcome.

Requirements

liblouis: needs to be installed. The bindings adapt to the size of widechar.
lua: needs to be installed. Any version between 5.1 and 5.4 will do.
luarocks: to build and install the bindings

luarocks install lua-louis

local louis = require "liblua-louis"

print(louis.translateString("de-g2.ctb", "Guten Tag"))

You can even invoke liblouis from the fennel language, as it compiles to lua:

(let [louis (require :liblua-louis)]
  (print (louis.translateString "en-ueb-g2.ctb" "Hello World"))
  (print (louis.version)))

luarocks make rockspecs/lua-louis-0.4-1.rockspec

See the issue list. Mostly the bindings should be more complete and idiomatic. Pull request are certainly very welcome.

The bindings are released under LGPLv3+.