Unicode stream library for Lua

[Mildred <ml.mildred593@...>]

Hi,

I would like to write a parser in Lua, and I don't want to have it
bound to a specific stream interface. That is, I want it to be able to
read files, strings, network streams, or even other sources. So I
wonder if there is any stream library in Lua that could do that.

Also, ultimately, I would like to parse unicode streams. Those could be
encoded in utf-8, utf-16, iso-8859-* or whatever. So I would like the
library to be able to give me the next unicode character in a stream,
always encoded the same way. So it should be able to convert between
encodings, or at least have some knowledge about it.

Do you know a library that could do that ?
If it doesn't exists in plain Lua, perhaps there is a C library that
would fit, I'm ready to do a Lua binding if necessary.

Thanks

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