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Does Lua support Unicode?

April 26, 2017Lua support Unicode

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Does Lua support Unicode?

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Yes and No. Lua strings can contain any characters (they are not NUL-terminated) so Unicode strings can be passed around without problems, as can any binary data. However, the existing string libraries assume single-byte characters, so a special library is needed; see slnunicode or ICU4Lua.