Re: UTF8 to/from Unicode?

[Xavier Wang <weasley.wx@...>]

2015-01-31 19:37 GMT+08:00 Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@gmail.com>:
> I wish to make use of a library that expects its strings to be in
> 32-bit Unicode.
> What is the recommended way in Lua 5.3 of converting to/from UTF8?
>

maybe you can work together with utf8.len, utf8.codepoint and
string.pack, like this (untested):

local result = string.pack(("I4"):rep(utf8.len(s)), utf8.codepoint(s))

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regards,
Xavier Wang.