[luatex] Unicode support

[Hans Hagen]

On 8/13/2023 1:12 PM, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> 
>> Do you use the `uniParse.tcl` script, probably
>>
>>    https://opensource.apple.com/source/tcl/tcl-14/tcl/tools/uniParse.tcl.auto.html  ,
>>
>> to regenerate `slnudata.c` as soon as a new Unicode version gets
>> published?
> 
> Having a closer look it seems that this file only handles the BMP
> (i.e., the range U+0000 to U+FFFF), which is, well, not optimal.
> Wouldn't it make thus sense to switch to an actively maintained UTF-8
> library like 'luautf8'?
> 
>    https://github.com/starwing/luautf8
basicallty the slunicode is obsolete (but kept) ... one can just write 
lua helpers instead (the are are some traversers etc in the string 
namespace)

Hans


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