Re: Accented characters: setting locale doesn't work

[Mike Pall <mikelu-0711@...>]

Hi,

David Haley wrote:
> 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:

The mentioned postings refer to single-byte locales (e.g.
ISO-8859-*) which is the only thing standard Lua supports
out-of-the-box.

But there's slnunicode: http://luaforge.net/projects/sln/

[Note: this solves string matching, but UTF-8 variable names
in the source code would need a patched Lua core.]

Bye,
     Mike