Re: UTF-8 validation

["Cezary H. Noweta" <chn@...>]

On 2015-12-10 20:12, Hisham wrote:

> Minor detail, but using "false" to indicate no-error is something I've
> never seen in Lua APIs. (It's common in C to mean 0 = OK, but `false`
> as OK in Lua strikes me as strange). I think nil would be more
> idiomatic there,

Yes - I meant value evaluated to false --- not false itself. Currently, 
lua_pushboolean() is a remnant of a previous version.

> It would be nice if this function was implemented as part of a
> standalone module that could be deployed separately, instead of
> injecting into the standard `utf8` table. (It would be nicer for
> distributing with LuaRocks, too). utf8check, maybe?

It was born as ad-hoc, light-weight solution to provide a valid string 
for existing functions. Everybody can take it and do whatever he want 
under Lua's Copyright Notice - the foo is not patent pending. :-)

-- best regards

Cezary H. Noweta