Re: Could Lua itself become UTF8-aware?

[Shmuel Zeigerman <shmuz@...>]

On 29/04/2017 16:41, Dirk Laurie wrote:
> The next step would be a compiler option under which the lexer
> accepts a UTF-8 first character followed by the correct number
> of UTF-8 continuation characters as being alphabetic for the
> purpose of being an identifier or part of one.

BTW, LuaJIT 2 has it for years already (it allows UTF-8 in identifiers). 
But it seems nobody needs it.

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Shmuel