Re: UTF-8 patterns in Lua 5.3

[Coda Highland <chighland@...>]

On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 10:32 PM, Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@gmail.com> wrote:
> The task is clearly not a candidate for Lua 5.3's utf8 library, perhaps out
> of scope even for Hisham's. Maybe not: the feature is needed only for
> 'find', and it could be seen as a special case of no-magic searching,
> triggered by supplyng a particular value for the fourth parameter, say
> "latinize".

でもね、それはどう？

Japanese has combined and combining variations of its characters too.
IIRC, so does Korean. Are we going to make this magic so Eurocentric?

I consider this to be evidence towards "either implement all of
Unicode or stay out of the way."

/s/ Adam