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- Subject: Re: Could Lua itself become UTF8-aware?
- From: Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@...>
- Date: Mon, 1 May 2017 07:05:49 +0200
2017-04-30 23:11 GMT+02:00 Sean Conner <sean@conman.org>:
> 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
I did not read that before posting, and Sean is careful not to imply that
old issues are dead and buried,
But UTF-8 has come closer to universal acceptance in the last three
years. What was "maybe not a good idea" back then, might have
become" maybe not a bad idea" now.
-- Dirk
