Re: Changes in the validation of UTF-8

["Soni \"They/Them\" L." <fakedme@...>]

On 2019-03-17 2:51 a.m., Daurnimator wrote:
> I noticed the new commit that adds support for longer (deprecated in
> 2003) utf8 sequences:
> https://github.com/lua/lua/commit/1e0c73d5b643707335b06abd2546a83d9439d14c
>
> I'm curious why this changed? It seems like a backwards step to me.

This is very useful for ppl like me who use an UTF-8-like encoding to 
encode for integers. Maybe you want the module renamed to "varint8" instead?