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- Subject: Re: [PATCH] Quoted String "%q" non-ascii escaping (w/ hex).
- From: Niccolo Medici <niccolomedici@...>
- Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2017 20:18:18 +0300
On 6/28/17, Duane Leslie <parakleta@darkreality.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I had a problem with the quoted string format producing strings that
> were not legal UTF-8 [...]
What do you mean? I don't see any problem:
`string.format("%q", "Здравствуйте")` returns '"Здравствуйте"'. That's
valid UTF-8.
>
> [...] because it was not escaping non-ascii characters,
(Why should non-ASCII chars be escaped? If you personally need this
escaping, it doesn't mean there's a "problem" with Lua's %q.)
