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- Subject: Re: Lua Observations/Questions
- From: Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@...>
- Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 10:23:25 -0300
> * Lua doesn't appear to have any knowledge of Unicode strings, since
> all strings are manipulated as "char *". Are there plans to make Lua
> Unicode-aware?
About that point, does anyone know anything about support for Unicode in
Linux? (More specifically, where we could find a complete implementation
of "wchar.h"?)
> * Is it possible to do binary I/O in Lua? The iolib seems to be
> text-file specific.
As lhf said, you can use strings for binary I/O. But, in DOS, you still
need to open the file in "binary" mode. Lua 3.2 comes with a new function,
"openfile", where you provide an explicit "mode" string.
-- Roberto
