strange behaviour with accented chars on debian unstable

[Walter Cruz <walter.php@...>]

Hi all. I'm using lua package from Debian, (I'm using unstable)

But there's something strange. That little script:

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x = "Walter é"
print(x)
t={}
for word in string.gfind(x, "%w+") do
    table.insert(t,word)
end

table.foreach(t,print)
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returns :
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Walter é
1       Walter
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The accented char is losted. I have downloaded lua 5.1 beta and compiled it, but the behaviour is the same.

I don't know what is causing that :(

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- Walter