Re: Support for Windows unicode paths

[Shmuel Zeigerman <shmuz@...>]

Joshua Jensen wrote:
> LuaPlus's wide string support has, among other things, been used to ship 
> a number of commercial console games (Xbox and others) to in Far Eastern 
> languages.
>
> So should Lua be infected with this world-wide language enabling 
> "crap"?  That's not my call.  Unicode is far more than just 16-bit 
> characters, but having those 16-bit characters was sufficient to ship 
> properly localized string tables.
>
> FWIW, I just simply leave the #defines off the majority of the time.

Here's an example of why I'd like to have Unicode support in Lua.
I'm maintaining a library ("LuaFAR") that allows writing plugins for FAR 
(www.farmanager.com) in Lua. Since couple years ago, FAR has become a 
Unicode application. This caused plugin writers to modify their plugins 
to support Unicode too. That probably was not an easy task but still 
quite feasible for those writing plugins in C/C++, Pascal and 
PowerShell. It seems that to do so with Lua, both LuaFAR *and* Lua 
itself have to support Unicode.

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Shmuel