Re: is string.gmatch(), string.upper() 7-bit ascii only?

[Marc Balmer <marc@...>]

> Am 07.04.2016 um 15:27 schrieb Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@inf.puc-rio.br>:
> 
>> I am trying to manipulate text with umlauts.  string.upper() does not produce upper case version of umlauts like ä,ö,ü etc.
>> 
>> Also the %g pattern, when used in string.gmatch() does not match these umlauts.
>> 
>> Is there anything that can be done about it?  Or, am I making a stupid mistake?
> 
>  http://www.lua.org/manual/5.3/manual.html#6.4
>  [...]
>  The string library assumes one-byte character encodings.
> 
> If you are using an 8-bit encoding (e.g., LATIN 1), then these should
> work, given a proper locale. Otherwise (e.g., UTF-8), you will need an
> external library.
> 

Well, at least on an Ubuntu 14.04 system it does not work.  But I don't blame Lua if the underlying OS supplied toupper() C function doesn't do the job, of course:

$ sudo locale-gen de_CH
Generating locales...
  de_CH.ISO-8859-1... done
Generation complete.
$ lua
Lua 5.3.2  Copyright (C) 1994-2015 Lua.org, PUC-Rio
> = os.setlocale('de_CH.ISO-8859-1')
de_CH.ISO-8859-1
> = string.upper('äöü')
äöü
>

(Expected is 'ÄÖÜ')

- MARC