Re: Support for Windows unicode paths

[Alex Queiroz <asandroq@...>]

Hallo,

On 7/23/09, Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> wrote:
>
>
> One doesn't need wide strings to use unicode, utf-8 works fine.
>
>  Microsoft made a bad call, and they're stuck with it, but Lua need not
>  do so.
>

     UTF-8 is best for serialisation (writing text to disk, to socket
etc.). For in-memory strings it makes a lot of algorithms harder.
UCS-2 was a bad idea, but UTF-16 works perfectly well. UTF-32 is even
better.

-- 
-alex
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