It was thus said that the Great Igor Medeiros once stated:
Dear contributors,
Is there a way to covert a string whose characters are encoded in utf8, to
a string with characters encoded in iso-8859-1, just using lua standard
libs? I cannot use libs with C codes.
If there is, could you tell me how to do that or even point some site with
this information?
I don't know of any existing Lua code to do this, but the concept is
straightforward:
1. convert UTF-8 sequence to a Unicode codepoint
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8)
2. Convert the Unicode codepoint
(http://www.unicode.org/Public/UCD/latest/charts/CodeCharts.pdf WARNING:
LARGE PDF) to ISO-8859-1 codepoint
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC_8859-1)
3. Go back to step 1 if more data.
-spc (That should be enough to get you going ... )