Re: UTF-8 patterns in Lua 5.3

[Ross Bencina <rossb-lists@...>]

On 17/04/2014 5:29 PM, steve donovan wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 9:12 AM, Coda Highland<chighland@gmail.com>  wrote:
> > >I consider this to be evidence towards "either implement all of
> > >Unicode or stay out of the way."
>
> Well, that can't be done in the core, since Lua would double in size ;)


Is there a known lower bound on the complexity of implementing "all of 
Unicode"?

Lua does well at keeping things small, maybe "all of Unicode" is not as 
big as is assumed? (or maybe it is?)

Ross.