Re: Of Unicode in the next Lua version

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Subject: Re: Of Unicode in the next Lua version
From: Peter Cawley <lua@...>
Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2013 00:02:45 +0100

On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 11:56 PM, Pierre-Yves Gérardy <pygy79@gmail.com> wrote:
> UTF-16 baffles me, though. Do you know why they reserved
> codepoints, which are supposed to correspond to symbols, to the
> implementation details of an encoding?

Presumably to provide a migration path for UCS-2.

References:
- Of Unicode in the next Lua version, Pierre-Yves Gérardy
- Re: Of Unicode in the next Lua version, Roberto Ierusalimschy
- Re: Of Unicode in the next Lua version, Pierre-Yves Gérardy
- Re: Of Unicode in the next Lua version, Jay Carlson
- Re: Of Unicode in the next Lua version, Pierre-Yves Gérardy

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