Utf8 native extension

d954mas · December 31, 2019, 10:05am

I need a utf8 lib, so i build https://github.com/starwing/luautf8 as defold natve exstention.

library:https://github.com/d954mas/defold-utf8
I use it in html and windows. But it should work everywhere.

Examples

More info read in luautf8.
Many routines are same as Lua’s string module:

utf8.byte
utf8.char
utf8.find
utf8.gmatch
utf8.gsub
utf8.len
utf8.lower
utf8.match
utf8.reverse
utf8.sub
utf8.upper

Mathias_Westerdahl · December 31, 2019, 9:39am

That’s a nice addition. Don’t forget to submit it to the Asset Portal!

Pawel · January 19, 2024, 3:04pm

Funny thing is that I came back to this, when I wanted to test Tabular - a nice Lua module to pretty print my tables

After fetching utf8 it works flawlessly (You need also to comment out ansicolors dependencies out of it (like, 3 lines)) and it works in Defold console:

(print is pretty, but content is not )

EDIT, ok here’s example taken from their readme: