Re: lua_tolstring and wide character strings

[Joshua Jensen <jjensen@...>]

----- Original Message -----
From: Shmuel Zeigerman
Date: 8/14/2009 4:12 AM
> 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):
>
> Please correct me if I'm wrong, or if better options exist.
You might try LuaPlus (http://luaplus.org/) which has real wide 
character string support.    Be sure to grab the Subversion build from 
svn://svn.luaplus.org/LuaPlus/work51.  If you would like to merge it 
into your Lua, look for #ifdef'ed blocks of LUA_WIDESTRING and 
LUA_WIDESTRING_FILE.

Josh