Re: Managing Unicode (UTF-8 and UTF-16) data in Lua

[Philipp Janda <siffiejoe@...>]

Am 06.08.2016 um 11:28 schröbte steve donovan:
> On Fri, Aug 5, 2016 at 10:03 PM, Paul Moore <p.f.moore@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > It does support UTF8, you just need to set it explicitly:
> > > winapi.set_encoding(winapi.CP_UTF8).
> > >
> > > It will then be passed to MultiByteToWideChar, WideCharToMultiByte,
> > > and other calls.
> >
> > Ah cool, I hadn't spotted that. It's not so important for my code to
> > handle multiple encodings, though, so I'll probably just stick to
> > UTF-8.
>
> The trick is to always use the widechar variants of the API calls, and
> convert UTF-8 to UTF-16 before calling them.

AFAIK, the Apache portable runtime does it like this on Windows. There's 
even a binding for Lua 5.1. APR is a bit difficult to build (especially 
on Windows), but it provides many of the usual OS services you might 
need ...


Philipp