RE: Unicode support

["Eric Ries" <eries@...>]

This is supported in Lua 4.1 ... If you are committed to 4.0 for the time
being (as we are over here), I have a C++ wrapper class that I use to get
data in and out of Lua. It supports wide and normal strings (as well as all
other types) transparently. Let me know if you're interested.


Eric

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-lua-l@tecgraf.puc-rio.br
> [mailto:owner-lua-l@tecgraf.puc-rio.br]On Behalf Of Gary Makin
> Sent: Monday, November 05, 2001 8:25 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list
> Subject: Unicode support
>
>
> I've been converting a project over to support Unicode as much as
> possible.
> I've just got to the Lua section of it, and I was surprised to
> see that, as
> far as I can tell, the Lua code has no support for being passed a Unicode
> block of text, or to execute code that's in a Unicode formatted text file.
>
> Am I wrong in this, and if not, is this something that's planned for the
> future?
>
> Thanks,
> Gary
>
>