Re: Lua 5.1 and UTF-8 ?

[Asko Kauppi <askok@...>]

hmm.. string literals, I've added "\x[NN]NN" and "\u[NN]NN" support  
now (the former giving raw hex input, the latter doing the 1-5byte  
conversion.

Sure, that's not an absolute requirement, but a neato anyhow.

The rest is all in string.* namespace, that is, lstrlib.  Haven't  
looked at the existing code (Unicode patch) yet, but I will. thanks.

-ak

to Rici: thanks for the offer, but.. did it already?  :)  You could  
still send in the (string literals) patch so I can compare the  
approaches. Perhaps harmonize the syntax, too.

Klaus Ripke kirjoitti 23.5.2005 kello 2.44:

> Hi Asko
>
> On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 02:18:01AM +0300, Asko Kauppi wrote:
>
> > The goal for me would be UTF-8 only, boldly ignoring the issues with
> > existing data in other encodings.  For that, a couple of patching
> > points within Lua will be required, already started the work. :)
> ... not to stop you from work, just curious,
> what would require patching other than lstrlib?
> And what's wrong with the existing lstrlib alternative?
>
> cheers