Re: Testing LUA: verify the correctness of a UTF16 LUA port

[David Dunham <david@...>]

On 14 Oct 2009, at 19:22, Joshua Jensen wrote:

> I apologize for hijacking the thread, but I really do feel it is  
> useful to have wide character string support for my work within the  
> games industry.  For applications, wide characters may be worthless.


Our games use UTF-8, but user-visible strings come from what are  
essentially external resources -- Lua code has to look them anyway up  
so they can be localized.

> 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.

Again, this is why wide character support seems like the wrong idea --  
it is not 21st century Unicode.

David Dunham       Development Manager
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