Re: Would lua support varaible name with non-ascii characters?

[Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@...>]

Op Ma., 15 Okt. 2018 om 18:30 het Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo
<lhf@tecgraf.puc-rio.br> geskryf:
>
> > and for utf-8,all we need is just changing the follow in llex.c(line 558-571)
>
> Or change lctype.c. See http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2009-10/msg00104.html
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> > It's very easy.Will lua 5.4 support it?
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> Probably not. See the thread above.

In a later post,
http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2011-05/msg00543.html, Luiz spelt it
out:

> Note that you can also provide your own lctype.c without patching
> the one in the Lua core. The linker will use yours instead.

We also had some fun last year in this thread:

http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2017-04/msg00395.html