utf-8 support (was: [ANN] Lua 5.1.2-rc3 now available)

[David Kastrup <dak@...>]

Erik Hougaard <erik@hougaard.com> writes:

> I think the old reason was that CE was(is?) 100% unicode and the C
> libraries didnt have stdio ....

Apropos: could someone clue me in what the proposed way of operation
is for dealing with utf-8 strings?  When one is using lua as an
embedded interpreter, having efficient strings with a natural Unicode
character type (internally represented with utf-8) would save a lot of
headaches.

-- 
David Kastrup