Re: Will Lua kernel use Unicode in the future?

[Alex Queiroz <asandroq@...>]

Hallo,

On 29/12/05, Lisa Parratt <lisa@thecommune.org.uk> wrote:
>
> On 29 Dec 2005, at 11:06, Klaus Ripke wrote:
> > http://lua-users.org/wiki/LuaUnicode
>
> A few observations, reading this page:
>
> Lack of "\U+1234" style unicode character escapes - it strikes me
> that the code to isolate such an escape, and then convert it to an 8
> bit string would only take a few lines of code. Is there a good
> theological reason why this isn't supported?
>

     Maybe because it'd give the wrong impression that Lua supports Unicode.

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-alex
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