Re: Will Lua kernel use Unicode in the future?

[Philippe Lhoste <PhiLho@...>]

Chris Marrin wrote:
> you could enter this:
>
>      "This is a summation character: \226\136\145"
>
> and a console that understood UTF8 would show a summation characer. But 
> to do this I had to:
>
> - Use to the Character Map utility to find the character
> - Copy that character into OpenOffice, which understands Unicode
> - Save the file as UTF8
> - Open the file as binary in MsDev
> - Hand convert the character sequence to UTF8
> - Use Calculator to convert the result into decimal
>
> It would be nice if Lua could do this for me :-)

Part of this process may be simplified using the right tools...
Perhaps something like BabelMap 
<http://www.babelstone.co.uk/Software/BabelMap.html> may help here. It 
is supposed to be able to save a Unicode sequence in UTF-8, although I 
am not sure if this works correctly (I get \U0001D6AA sequence, for 
example). But if you look at the properties of the highlighted 
character, it gives the UTF-8 sequence in hexa. A simple Lua program can 
convert it to decimal...

If you do this frequently, an automation tool like AutoIt or AutoHotkey 
can help too.

Note: the above software recommendations work only for Windows, but I 
suppose there are equivalent tools for other OSs.

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