Re: The World According to Lua: How To?

[Klaus Ripke <paul-lua@...>]

On Friday 18 February 2005 19:14, PA wrote:
> So basically, UTF-8 renders most Lua core functionality useless as soon
> as one venture beyond US-ASCII, broadly speaking?
far too broad. only string.

> >  and avoid doing any string slicing;
> I need to do that. A major feature of the app is search.
That's a tough one!
May want to check http://malete.org/Doc/CharSet on that,
especially the notes on east asian word indexing.
As promised this will be (independently of the full DB)
be made available from lua.


cheers