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On 14 Aug 2009, at 05:28, Jerome Vuarand wrote:


Please correct me if I'm wrong, or if better options exist.


AFAIK there is little reason to use UTF-16 in Lua rather than UTF-8.
With UTF-8 most string library functions can be used to some extent.
There are nice functions in the win32 API to convert from UTF-8 to
UTF-16 and back : MultiByteToWideChar and WideCharToMultiByte.
We've been using UTF-8 as well. Works great, and it's also cross- platform (wide characters aren't really). 

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