Re: Chinese characters in a string
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- Subject: Re: Chinese characters in a string
- From: Miles Bader <miles@...>
- Date: 2012年12月07日 17:48:51 +0900
Rob Kendrick <rjek@rjek.com> writes:
> Lua's string functions only operate on byte quantities, and are only
> really useful for ASCII text. However, Lua strings themselves can
> contain any characters, and thus are quite safe to contain UTF-8
> data. You need to use a Unicode-away string library to manipulate
> them usefully, however.
It depends on what your needs are. UTF-8 is regular enough that you
can usefully manipulate it directly in many cases. This is especially
true for languages like Chinese where notions like case etc, aren't
meaningful.
-miles
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