Re: Accented characters: setting locale doesn't work

["Sherry Zhang" <yuleopen@...>]

hi, the variable name should be all ASCII
of course, you can change the lua source code to suit your situation.
AFAIK, there is a lua version that support Chinese variable names.

Sherry Zhang.

On 11/6/07, David Haley <dchaley@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Lua list,
>
> I am trying to use character classes %a and %w to match against strings
> with utf8 accented characters. I found the following threads in the
> archives where people have similar problems:
>
> #1
> http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2006-11/msg00502.html
> #2
> http://lua-users.lua.org/lists/lua-l/2005-11/msg00065.html
>
> The gist of it seems to be that you need to set the locale before using
> the matching functions.
>
> I tried doing just that, following Mike Pall's suggestion of breaking
> the script into two parts:
>
> $ cat script.lua
> --------------------------------------
> os.setlocale("fr_FR.utf8", "ctype")
>
> dofile "script1.lua"
> --------------------------------------
>
> $ cat script1.lua
> --------------------------------------
> é = 1
> print(é)
> --------------------------------------
>
>
> But then I get:
>
> $ lua script.lua
> lua: script1.lua:1: unexpected symbol near '�'
> stack traceback:
>         [C]: in function 'dofile'
>         script.lua:5: in main chunk
>         [C]: ?
>
>
> Any idea why this is not working?
> (The pattern matching doesn't work, either.)
>
>
> Here is the information that I think is relevant, please let me know if
> I should provide anything else:
>
> - My main locale is en_US.UTF-8   (i.e., echo $LANG --> en_US.UTF-8)
>
> - When I print the result of os.setenv("fr_FR.utf8"), I get fr_FR.utf8
> (which I believe means 'success')
>
> - I am running under a fully updated Ubuntu 7.04 system
>
> - My Lua version is 5.1.1, unmodified from the Ubuntu repositories
>
> - Same behavior on vanilla 5.1.2
>
>
> Thanks in advance,
> - David
>
>
> --
> ~David-Haley
> http://david.the-haleys.org
>
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