Re: Allow UTF8 value names in lua?

[Gabriel Bertilson <arboreous.philologist@...>]

You might be interested in trying out my "UTF-8 identifiers patch",
which I posted about in the list:
http://lua.2524044.n2.nabble.com/UTF-8-identifiers-patch-td7684626.html

It's not quite satisfactory (it probably should normalize, and allow
ZWNJ and ZWJ in certain positions; see
https://www.unicode.org/reports/tr31/tr31-31.html#Layout_and_Format_Control_Characters),
but it's an improvement over simply allowing all non-ASCII bytes in
identifiers, and it didn't greatly inflate the binary.

— Gabriel

On Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 11:55 PM bil til <flyer31@googlemail.com> wrote:
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> Do you possibly consider to allow value/variable names encoded UTF8 in lua?
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> (of course still NOT allowed to start with a number, and of course still NO
> operator signs as +#-*/... must be used for such a name string ... but that
> any "wider" UTF8 chars would be allowed?)
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> This for sure would be VERY nice for very many users in Asia... . (The
> Europeans with their crazy languages usually have always workarounds to
> write their crazy letters in English, but even those users would like this,
> I think).
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