Re: Will Lua kernel use Unicode in the future?

[Chris Marrin <chris@...>]

Roberto Ierusalimschy wrote:
> > Translating "U+1234" into a UTF8 sequence is a very small snippet of code.
>
>
> Sorry my ignorance, but why is such escape sequences so necessary? Are
> there so many control chars in unicode? (For non-control chars, a
> UTF8-aware editor should be able to put the proper enconding inside the
> string, is that right?)

It allows you to add "incidental" characters without the need for a 
fully functional editor for that language. For instance, when I worked 
for Sony we had the need to add a few characters of Kanji on occasion. 
It's not easy to get a Kanji editor setup for a western keyboard, so 
adding direct unicode was more convenient. There are also some oddball 
symbols in the upper registers for math and chemistry and such that are 
easier to add using escapes.

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