Re: Wanted: ncurses & utf-8 string library

[Sam Roberts <sroberts@...>]

On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 10:09:37PM +0000, Rob Kendrick wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 18:18 +0000, David Given wrote:
> > I've had a hunt around, and I know such things exist, but trying to find which
> > one's better is rather harder, so I thought I'd ask.
> > 
> > I'm looking for a UTF-8 string library, preferably a drop in for 'string', and
> > also a set of ncurses Lua bindings. I'd particularly like them to work
> > together so I can display Unicode characters via ncurses. Can anyone suggest
> > something that works well?
> 
> I am also interested in a nicely integrated UTF-8 library, along with
> iconv-like functionality.

http://luaforge.net/projects/lua-iconv/

In my workings with utf-8, I've just used them as strings, and its
worked very well for me.

What would you want from a utf-8 library?

Sam