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- Subject: Re: Native unicode support?
- From: Björn De Meyer <bjorn.demeyer@...>
- Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2002 20:14:58 +0200
Roberto Ierusalimschy wrote:
>
> Just to make sure: you only need this adaptation if you want "localized"
> identifiers. If you want extra characteres only inside strings, you
> don't need to change anything inside the Lua core (except perhaps to
> redefine `strcoll'?). It should work with UTF-8 strings out of the box.
>
> -- Roberto
Yes, that is exactly what I ment.
And you are correct, the Lua core
works out of the bowx with UTF-8 strings. strcoll() will
work correctly for the standard "C" locale, and should
probably also work in various other locales that use
8-bit wide characters.
Of course, on some sytems, an UTF-8 locale for charact
types is available. If this UTF-8 locale is available, then no changes
are needed to the LUA core at all to support UTF-8 identifiers.
But that UTF-8 locale is missing on many systems, including my
current home linux box and probably on win32 as well. Modifying
the lua core to support UTF-8 identifiers is more of a portability
concern than anything else.
--
"No one knows true heroes, for they speak not of their greatness." --
Daniel Remar.
Björn De Meyer
bjorn.demeyer@pandora.be