Re: Convert utf8 string to iso8859-1 (Latin1)

[Sean Conner <sean@...>]

It was thus said that the Great Igor Medeiros once stated:
> Dear contributors,
> 
> Is there a way to covert a string whose characters are encoded in utf8, to
> a string with characters encoded in iso-8859-1, just using lua standard
> libs? I cannot use libs with C codes.
> 
> If there is, could you tell me how to do that or even point some site with
> this information?

  I don't know of any existing Lua code to do this, but the concept is
straightforward:

	1. convert UTF-8 sequence to a Unicode codepoint
	   (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8)

	2. Convert the Unicode codepoint
	(http://www.unicode.org/Public/UCD/latest/charts/CodeCharts.pdf WARNING:
	LARGE PDF) to ISO-8859-1 codepoint
	(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC_8859-1)

	3. Go back to step 1 if more data.

  -spc (That should be enough to get you going ... )