Re: Could Lua itself become UTF8-aware?

[Sean Conner <sean@...>]

It was thus said that the Great Roberto Ierusalimschy once stated:
> > > What is wrong with
> > > 
> > > function   ()
> > > end
> > 
> >   Again, missing character in font.
> > 
> > > or
> > > 
> > > function functiοn ()
> > > end
> > > ?
> > 
> >   There was a long discussion about that a few years ago:
> > 
> > 	http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2014-04/msg01226.html
> 
> There is no missing character in font nor keywords being used as
> identifiers. Both | | ("en quad", a kind of white space) and
> |functiοn| (with a omicron for "ο") would be valid identifiers with
> the proposal (accept everything above 127 as valid in identifiers).

  The "en quad" showed up as an outlined box for me (which is how my system
displays a missing or unsupported Unicode character).  And the |function|
with the omicron for the "o" only shows up as "function" (no marks) for me.

  Perhaps I should have been more clear.

  -spc