Re: lua for unicode

[Scott Morgan <blumf@...>]

lua+Steven.Murdoch@cl.cam.ac.uk wrote:
> Initially Unicode was limited to 2^16 positions (65,536), but this was found 
> to be inadequate. The first 2^16 characters of Unicode are known as the Basic 
> Multilingual Plane (BMP) and is intended be enough to represent all living 
> languages, however as other messages have suggested it does not contain 
> historical characters. This space is not yet full so there may be further 
> characters added in the future.
>

What issues would be involved getting lua to natively use the MS Windows 
16-bit unicode effort? I know its a little (well quite a lot :) ) 
against the spirit of lua, but it seems like a good quick fix just to go 
through the lua source and replace all the str* function calls with 
win32 wstr* calls. Of course all scripts would have to be saved into the 
same 16-bit text files in this situation.

Just to make clear (and avoid flames) I wouldn't consider this a proper 
fix but just a quick way to get win32 unicode support into lua.

Scott