Re: question about Unicode

[Philippe Lhoste <PhiLho@...>]

Adrian Perez a Ãcrit :
> (Yes, I checked this even in recent Linux/BSD and older Solaris
> systems, at it still works, the same goes for most text utils... but
> don't expect character ranges in regexps like '[ã-ã]' to work,
> because most apps assume one byte per glyph).

I expect that apps making correct use of good RE libraries like PCRE 
(compiled with UTF-8 support) should be OK with the above. I never tried 
this...

> Just my two cents. I would really appreciate Unicode support in Lua. I
> vote for enforcing UTF-8 as encoding for source files. Python is a
> somewhat hackish: it tries to detect encoding by using a special comment
> on the first 5 lines of code like '# -*- encoding: utf-8 -*-'. It works
> but I think it's quite awkward...

No more awkward than shbang or XML way...
I am not a fan of enforcing an encoding scheme.

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