Changing the char type in 5.0.2

[Reuben Thomas <rrt@...>]

I was just wondering what the current state of the art is on changing the 
char type. I have found LuaPlus, but that has a lot of extra baggage; 
ideally I'd just like to change Lua's char type to wide character.

Anyone done this?

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