Re: LuaFileSystem on Windows and character sets

[KHMan <keinhong@...>]

Shmuel Zeigerman wrote:
> KHMan wrote:
> > Andrew Wilson wrote:
> > > To display try chcp 65001, to use UTF-8 you with lfs you probably have
> > > to convert UTF-8 to UTF-16 and then use lfs calls. And nope I haven't
> > > tried any of this.   AGRW
> >
> > lfs can't use UTF-8 or UTF-16.
>
> On Windows, Quylthulg [1] has all the functionality of lfs and supports 
> UTF-8 / UTF16.
>
> [1] http://luaforge.net/projects/quylthulg/

UTF-8 only, also it's rather hastily hacked together and may be 
overhauled at any time... there are stuff I don't fully trust in 
there, but I have been using it to synchronize to Flash drives and 
external HDDs for several months now.

I would rather a more mainstream module like LuaFileSystem pick up 
support for Unicode; this would ensure at least some level of 
long-term support or dependability.

Another way would be to run Lua on Cygwin 1.7... it should work I 
suppose but I haven't gotten around installing Cygwin 1.7 yet.

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Cheers,
Kein-Hong Man (esq.)
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia