Re: Plea for the support of unicode escape sequences

[Tom N Harris <telliamed@...>]

On 06/30/2011 10:37 AM, steve donovan wrote:
> There's things like '_mbslen' (mbs for 'multi-byte string'); UTF-8 is
> definitely encouraged if you don't go wide.

Unfortunately, Microsoft's _setmbcp does not support UTF-8 (nor UTF-7). 
It's like they want to make things more difficult for us.

You could redefine Lua to use wchar_t in strings. And that's why I 
mentioned escapes greater than 255. As more than one person pointed out, 
I confused sizeof() with CHAR_BIT. Well, you could
"#define char int" but that would be cheating. Or not? I see a few 
"sizeof(char)" in the Lua source. But it does assume that "char" has not 
been redefined in other places. It does test against UCHAR_MAX but with 
the assumption that it is less than 1000. (Only three decimal digits or 
two hexadecimal.)

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- tom
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