Re: Could Lua itself become UTF8-aware?

[Marc Balmer <marc@...>]

> [...]
> 
> UTF-8 is now recognizable as ASCII's successor. It's become the most
> common character set specified for web pages. And some of the
> most-used programming libraries speak UTF-8, e.g, the multi-platform
> GTK and Qt families of libraries.
> 
> [...]


UTF-8 is _not_ a character set.  It stands for UCS Transformation
Format, or Universal Character Set Transformation Format.  Universal
Character Set, or the almost identical Unicode, are character sets.
UTF-8 is just one format.