Re: Could Lua itself become UTF8-aware?

[Sean Conner <sean@...>]

It was thus said that the Great Roberto Ierusalimschy once stated:
> > [...] What's wrong with:
> > 
> > function 解決問題 ()
> > end

  I don't have the right font installed to see the function name.

> > This is not a trivial exercise to get right, I'm not sure that just
> > pretending any Unicode glyph from 0x80 on up is a 'letter' is sufficient.
> 
> What is wrong with
> 
> function   ()
> end

  Again, missing character in font.

> or
> 
> function functiοn ()
> end
> ?

  There was a long discussion about that a few years ago:

	http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2014-04/msg01226.html

  It appears the consensus then was "maybe not a good idea."

  -spc