Re: Lua 5.1 has a serious issue

[Daniel Silverstone <dsilvers@...>]

On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 18:42 +0200, Asko Kauppi wrote:
> Make that apply to strings as well?
> As a quick example, would allow UTF-8 strings to be returning the  
> real length (in characters); not the number of bytes.

That would (unless I'm wrong) require strings to carry around metatables
themselves which is a very big change.

Or did you simply mean check against the string metatable?

D.

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