Re: strange behaviour with accented chars on debian unstable

[Philippe Lhoste <PhiLho@...>]

Walter Cruz wrote:
> Hi all. I'm using lua package from Debian, (I'm using unstable)
>
> But there's something strange. That little script:
>
> _______
> x = "Walter é"
> print(x)
> t={}
> for word in string.gfind(x, "%w+") do
>     table.insert(t,word)
> end
>
> table.foreach(t,print)
> ___________
>
> returns :
> _____
> Walter é
> 1       Walter
> _______
>
> 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 :(

That's simple. By default, your locale is probably "C", so it doesn't 
see high Ascii as part of word.

Just put os.setlocale("fra_fra", "ctype") at the start of your code, and 
it will work.

Note 1: As a French, I used a French locale, but of course, you may want 
to use another language suited to your needs.

Note 2: testing this on Windows, I used the fra_fra locale, specific to 
Microsoft, but on Debian and other "sane" systems, you may want to use 
fr_fr (or es, or pt_br or whatever).

I tried a bit more: fr_fr doesn't work for me, but fr is OK.

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