unicode support in lua

[Bertrand Mansion <golgote@...>]

Hi,

I am new to lua and currently reading the book.

I am wondering if lua 5.1 supports utf-8 in string handling,  
comparisons, conversions and pattern matching and things like \u in  
strings.
If not, are there plans to add utf-8 support in the future ?

Thanks,



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