Re: Unicode and UTF-8 the Lua way, mid-discussion (was Re: What do you miss most in Lua)

[Rob Hoelz <rob@...>]

On Wed, 8 Feb 2012 20:06:03 +0100
Patrick Rapin <toupie300@gmail.com> wrote:

> > I can actually think of a fourth solution, although it will be
> > probably be received as rather hack-ish.  You can add two new
> > functions, string.upgrade and string.downgrade, which marks a
> > string as UTF-8 or "non-UTF-8".
> 
> This is in fact very similar to the way Perl handles Unicode [1]
> And to my experience, it works quite well.
> Also, if Lua supports UTF-8, it will have to accept UTF-8 filenames
> on Windows. Jérôme Vuarand has written a patch for this [2], perhaps
> it will be included in vanilla Lua one day. ?
> 
> [1] http://perldoc.perl.org/utf8.html
> [2]
> http://hg.piratery.net/electronmeat/src/tip/srcweb/lua-5.1.4/lua-wstring.patch
> 

That's exactly where I got the idea from. =P

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