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

["Alex Queiroz" <asandroq@...>]

Hallo,

On 3/28/07, David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> wrote:
> 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.

    Lua strings are just data. If you want utf-8, you could use the
slnunicode module from selene: http://luaforge.net/projects/sln/

Cheers,
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-alex
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