On Oct 04, 2007, at 15:30, Aladdin Lampé wrote:
3) Ask the Lua-List if there is already an existing wonderful library (or patch) to solve my problem :-).
Perhaps Selene's slnunicode module could be of help: http://luaforge.net/projects/sln/ There are also some UTF-8 related code examples on the wiki: http://lua-users.org/wiki/ValidateUnicodeString http://lua-users.org/wiki/LuaUnicode And there is Rici Lake's utf8 module as well: http://primero.ricilake.net/lua/utf8.lua HTH. Cheers, PA.