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Roberto Ierusalimschy wrote:
> 
> > But, and please correct me if I am wrong, but don't lua regexps
> > support multi-byte patterns? Can't you do a (abc)+ to match
> > "abcabcabc" ? [...]
> 
> No :-(
> 
> -- Roberto

Well, that's a shame. That means the standard gsub and 
substring will not be made to work easily with patterns 
in UTF-8...  

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