Re: Lua 5.1 and UTF-8 ?

[Rici Lake <lua@...>]

by the way:

On 22-May-05, at 3:10 PM, Klaus Ripke wrote:

> at 3: you need perfectly no escape mechanism for string literals,
> as UTF-8 encodings do not use any special character like quotes.
> Just write your sources with a UTF-8 editor and everything is fine.
> After all, the lua compiler is consistently 8 bit clean everywhere,
> no?

Sure, but I personally find that awkward when trying to put
invisible characters, whitespace characters, combining characters,
etc. into things like search strings. I admit it's a luxury. But
it's not a particularly difficult patch. I've got it available
if anyone wants it.

R.