Re: The World According to Lua: How To?

[PA <petite.abeille@...>]

On Feb 18, 2005, at 12:36, Glenn Maynard wrote:

> A tip: using a real name on technical lists will tend to get you
> a better response.

Right... this is email... there is no such a thing as a "read name" :)

> Probably by having the application that's using Lua do the appropriate
> conversion to UTF-8 at the entry/exit points, and using setlocale()
> to change the locale to UTF-8.

The application is in Lua.

> No, it's not always ISO-8859-1.  (Don't know where he got that answer 
> from.)
> In Unix, it depends on the locale; in Windows, it's the ANSI codepage. 
>  My
> encoding is UTF-8, not ISO-8859-1.  The encoding on my Windows machine 
> is
> currently CP932 (Shift-JIS).

Ok. So Lua's encoding reflects the OS encoding?

> "Support" in what way?  What operations do you want to do?

I simply want to create, manipulate and vend text resources. And would 
like to make sure that whatever text I create is in a known encoding 
format.

> In this case, you'd probably want an interface to iconv.  Accepting 
> multiple
> tagged character sets in a single application is fairly atypical for 
> i18n
> support: most applications only need to be able to deal with the 
> language of
> the user.  Web browsers, mailers, etc. need more than that.

I'm working on a web server. In Lua.

> One generally extends a webserver with Lua--one doesn't write one *in* 
> Lua.  :)

There is a first for everything.

http://luaforge.net/projects/luahttpd/
http://luaforge.net/projects/xavante/

> If you don't understand i18n in general, you can't really understand
> how to deal with it in Lua.

Lets suspend disbelieve one second and pretend that I heard of i18n 
before. Just not in Lua and/or ANSI C :)

Thanks in any case.

Cheers

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