Re: Lua interpreter and Lua files encoding

[Dirk Laurie <dpl@...>]

On Thu, Jan 06, 2011 at 01:15:33PM +0200, Peter Odding wrote:
> 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?

They do, whether guaranteed or not.

Lua 5.2.0 (alpha)  Copyright (C) 1994-2010 Lua.org, PUC-Rio
> b={}; for j=0,255 do b[j+1]=string.char(j) end; c=table.concat(b)
> f=io.open('allbytes','w')
> f:write('all=[['..c..']]; for i=1,#all do print(string.byte(all,i)) end')
> f:close()
> dofile('allbytes') -- prints out 0 to 255

Whether you put the bytes in with a Lua program (as here) or by a text
editor using a keyboard that accepts all sorts of Compose-key sequences
does not matter.  Once those bytes are inside an adequate pair of 
delimiters they're just bytes.

Maybe the authors of the reference manual meant "8-bit clean" to imply 
this.

Dirk