Re: Will Lua kernel use Unicode in the future?

[Chris Marrin <chris@...>]

Roberto Ierusalimschy wrote:
> > I think the more important addition would be an easy Lua way to set the 
> > locale to use the UTF8 encoding.
>
>
> os.setlocale("UTF-8") ?

Yes, I suppose I should try that. Looking at the implementation it looks 
like it should work. But the documentation for setlocale on Win32 says 
nothing about the string "UTF-8" being supported. And even in Unix docs, 
it's pretty sketchy. I see that you can say "en-us.utf-8", but does it 
REQUIRE a language code? And is this cross-platform?

Anyway, if this can work across platforms, that's great!

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