[Dev-luatex] string library with utf-8 support
Hans Hagen
pragma at wxs.nl
Tue Oct 28 19:13:08 CET 2008
Olivier Binda wrote:
> Hello, I developped a Japanese dictionnary in XeTeX.
> It compiles just fine in luatex but I would like to code the commands in
> Lua instead of TeX.
> To make the code faster, cleaner, simpler and more powerfull.
>
> Yet, I need to be able to manipulate utf-8 strings (find, substring,
> replace, length, etc...).
> Is there a simple way to do that in LUA ? Will there be one day a luatex
> library for utf8 string managments ?
> (because it seems the string library is just for strings with 1 byte
> characters and it is really lacking)
there is
unicode.utf.gsub
etc
(you can also use lpeg which is 8 bit clean and for utf manipulations
that' sgood enough)
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