Unicode?

["chris.danx" <chris.danx@...>]

Hi,

I'm playing with Lua just now and am interested in using it for an 
application I'm working on.  One of the requirements is that internally 
everything uses utf-8 and that documents in other formats like ascii, 
utf-16 and utf-32 be converted to utf-8, processed and then converted 
back upon saving.  I'd like to be able to pass utf-8 strings to lua and 
have it compare them and to potentially have lua code in utf-8.  How 
easy is it to use lua with utf-8 and multibyte encoding sets?