Re: Will Lua kernel use Unicode in the future?

[Andras Balogh <andras.balogh@...>]

These kinds of problems should be solved at a different level, not 
hacked into Lua. The beautiful thing about Lua is that it's really clean 
ANSI C code and is not bloated with #ifedef-ed platform dependent 
workaround code.


Andras

Chris Marrin wrote:
> Yes, my recollection is that this is a total morass. So it would be nice 
> if Lua could "simplify" it by doing the right thing in its code. Perhaps 
> os.setlocale("UTF8") could do some special processing to setup all the 
> right values to get the same expected (or at least well-defined) results 
> on all platforms.
>
> Or maybe a new os.setencoding("UTF8") call could be created?