Re: Could Lua itself become UTF8-aware?

["Soni L." <fakedme@...>]

On 2017-04-30 07:19 AM, Shmuel Zeigerman wrote:
> 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.

Well, I'd argue mostly nobody needs it because it doesn't allow emoji in 
identifiers.

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