lua-users wiki: Lua UnicodeThis is an attempt to answer the LuaFaq : Can I use unicode strings? or Does Lua support unicode? In short, yes and no. Lua is unicode-agnostic and lua-strings are counted, so whenever you can treat unicode strings as simple byte sequences, you are done. Whenever that does not suffice, there are extension modules supplying your needs. You just have to figure out what exactly you mean by "support u
