Re: Chinese characters in a string

[Miles Bader <miles@...>]

Rob Kendrick <rjek@rjek.com> writes:
> Lua's string functions only operate on byte quantities, and are only
> really useful for ASCII text.  However, Lua strings themselves can
> contain any characters, and thus are quite safe to contain UTF-8
> data.  You need to use a Unicode-away string library to manipulate
> them usefully, however.

It depends on what your needs are.  UTF-8 is regular enough that you
can usefully manipulate it directly in many cases.  This is especially
true for languages like Chinese where notions like case etc, aren't
meaningful.

-miles

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