Re: Lua interpreter and Lua files encoding

[Peter Odding <peter@...>]

> > Proof: Suppose the string is N bytes long.  Then it cannot contain
> >      the substring '['..string.rep('-',N-1)..']'.  That string
> >      delimiter is therefore adequate for embedding the string. Q.E.D.
> oops ... ']' should be '['.

And I guess '-' should be '='? I still don't see how this is relevant 
given the topic though: How do long strings help with embedding literal 
UTF-8 sequences, given that the Lua 5.1 reference manual seems to make 
no guarantees about whether the lexer and parser preserve literal UTF-8 
sequences in string literals?

 - Peter Odding