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----- Original Message ----- From: David Given Date: 10/14/2009 8:31 PM
It does the equivalent of wcscmp(), only it doesn't rely on the C runtime to achieve this. That's because on some non-Visual C++ compilers, sizeof(wchar_t) != 2. sizeof(lua_WChar) is always 2.Joshua Jensen wrote: [...]LuaPlus achieves this via a C-like string representation: HelloWorld = L"Hello world!"What does LuaPlus do for things like string comparison and surrogates?
My understanding is that UCS-2 doesn't support surrogates. I don't think Microsoft's C runtime wide character library supports them either. I could be wrong.
I would consider ditching the LuaPlus wide character support if there was a small library that supported UTF-8 and allowed easy embedding of UTF-8 string types in Lua source files.Do any of them use UTF-8?I work in mobile games; our company makes a portable native gaming solution that allows you to install C-based games on any device, regardless of architecture. The API's based on OpenKODE, which uses UTF-8 in the few places where it uses strings. As I tend to do the bottom-end porting to weird and freaky embedded operating systems, I've got tiresomely familiar with having to translate UTF-8 to whatever encoding the host OS uses. There are a surprising number that use some form of half-assed UCS-2, and I've never figured out why --- it just makes life complex. I suspect that it's simple tradition. Most of them come from Asia, and Asia seems to have a culture of using UCS-2 or UTF-16...
Have you looked at slnunicode? That seems to be the smallest one I can find, but documentation is scarce, so I don't know if it achieves all of the goals.
Josh