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- Subject: Re: [ANN] Working with UTF-8 filenames on Windows in pure Lua
- From: Jerome Vuarand <jerome.vuarand@...>
- Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2019 16:35:52 +0000
On Sat, 19 Jan 2019 at 14:10, Viacheslav Usov <via.usov@gmail.com> wrote:
> There is no pure Lua solution to this problem.
I came to the same conclusion. I personally maintain a set of patches
[1] that make Lua (also LFS) use the W variants of all OS APIs
involving filenames. So in a sense all my Lua interpreters are impure,
but they're so much more usable for Windows scripting.
[1] https://bitbucket.org/doub/canopywater/src/default/srcweb/lua-5.3.4/patches/
