Re: lua_tolstring and wide character strings

[Miles Bader <miles@...>]

Bulat Ziganshin <bulat.ziganshin@gmail.com> writes:
>> Recently I was manipulating wide character strings in a Lua library. 
>> Windows API assumes these strings to end with L'\0' which is represented
>> as 2 successive zero bytes. The problem is, lua_tolstring guarantees 
>> only 1 zero byte at the end (according to the manual):
>
> i think that idea that you may hold utf-16 strings in Lua strings is
> wrong by itself. you should make specialized datatype

Exactly.

-Miles

-- 
"She looks like the wax version of herself."
     	   	    		   [Comment under a Paris Hilton fashion pic]