Re: Patching Lua to handle different code pages

[David Crayford <dcrayford@...>]

On 22/03/2014 12:13 AM, Dirk Laurie wrote:
> 2014-03-21 18:05 GMT+02:00 David Crayford <dcrayford@gmail.com>:
>
> > I have a requirement to patch the Lua core to handle different code pages.
> > The code pages will mainly be EBCDIC but could be ASCII.
> > I've had a look at the code and it seems that I can hook  iconv() calls into
> > luaL_loadfile, LuaL_loadbuffer and LuaL_loadstring in lauxlib.c, which
> > should translate all the source code before it hits the lexer/parser.
> >
> > Is there a better way of doing it?
> Customize lctype.c?

Needs to be done at runtime. Something like:

 lua -encoding=ibm-037 <script>