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- Subject: Re: unicode char ranges
- From: Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo <lhf@...>
- Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2012 14:41:20 -0200
> 2. The Lua string library is byte-oriented. I can search for five-letter
> proper names with "%u%l%l%l%l" and find "Emile" but not "Émile".
It depends on the locale:
s=[[
2. The Lua string library is byte-oriented. I can search for five-letter
proper names with "%u%l%l%l%l" and find "Emile" but not "Émile".
]]
print("locale",os.setlocale())
for w in s:gmatch("%u%l%l%l%l") do print(w) end
os.setlocale"en_US.ISO8859-1" -- Mac OS X name
print("locale",os.setlocale())
for w in s:gmatch("%u%l%l%l%l") do print(w) end
