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- Subject: Re: Could Lua itself become UTF8-aware?
- From: Sean Conner <sean@...>
- Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2017 17:11:27 -0400
It was thus said that the Great Roberto Ierusalimschy once stated:
> > [...] What's wrong with:
> >
> > function 解決問題 ()
> > end
I don't have the right font installed to see the function name.
> > This is not a trivial exercise to get right, I'm not sure that just
> > pretending any Unicode glyph from 0x80 on up is a 'letter' is sufficient.
>
> What is wrong with
>
> function ()
> end
Again, missing character in font.
> or
>
> function functiοn ()
> end
> ?
There was a long discussion about that a few years ago:
http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2014-04/msg01226.html
It appears the consensus then was "maybe not a good idea."
-spc