Re: [ANN] luaRT 0.9 beta1

[Javier Guerra Giraldez <javier@...>]

On Fri, 29 Jan 2021 at 02:25, <samir.tine@luart.org> wrote:
> Iterating through a string in Lua using a for loop with the Length operator doesn't work for UTF8 encoded strings, especialy with characters that exceed ASCII encoding.

this is wrong.  byte-iterating with the byte length operator and the
byte-based substring function works perfectly well no matter what the
contents of the string are.

UTF8 handling, using UTF8 functions works just as well.

mixing them is a recipe for disaster.


-- 
Javier