Re: UTF-8 patterns in Lua 5.3

[Tim Hill <drtimhill@...>]

On Apr 17, 2014, at 7:25 PM, William Ahern <william@25thandClement.com> wrote:

> 
> This hasn't been helped by Windows' and Java's early adoption of UTF-16,
> because they engender the idea that Unicode text can be indexed just like
> ASCII as long as your datatype is wide enough. Yes, many people understand
> that UTF-16 won't fit all the codepoints, but they erroneously think all one
> needs to do is upgrade to a wider character type, et voila, you've mastered
> I18N.
> 

To be fair to MS, they designed Windows for UCS2 way before Unicode moved to UTF-16 and overflowed the 16-bit codespace. I put the blame squarely on the Unicode people, who have yet again shown that when you try to be everything to everyone you end up being nothing to no-one.