I'll try to explain in a clearer way. If I open a file saved in UTF-16 in Lua using the IO library. I can then handle the content of that file to convert each pair of bytes as needed to end up with UTF-8 or even Ascii. All I want to do is to be able to read in the text/html format from the clipboard and process it in lua.
However I can not do anything with the Light user Data returned from the Clipboard using Lua, that I can discover. On Sun, 3 May 2020 at 21:56, Andrew Robinson <arobinso...@cox.net> wrote: > I hate to state the obvious but in a string data type, an > ASCII "character" is one byte in size (char), and a UTF-16 "character" is > two bytes in size (short). > > I apologize if this is out-of-place for your conversation, but I get a lot > of people who confuse a string character with a byte, instead of a variable > number of bytes, but ... you know, just in case that is the real issue here > I wanted to "fix it". > > So I'm not sure whether to say de nada or lo siento, > Andrew > > On 2020-05-03 at 12:02 PM, Antonio Scuri <antonio.sc...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > The UTF-16 function takes a "string" > > That is weird. UTF-16 strings are *unsigned short** arrays, strings in > Lua are *char** arrays. Something is not right. > > Is there a link for the documentation of that library? > > Best, > Scuri > > > Em dom., 3 de mai. de 2020 às 09:02, Jane Taubman <janetaub...@gmail.com> > escreveu: > >> > "data" can not be converted to a string using "tostring". It must >> use this function you mentioned. >> >> Sorry I did not make myself clear. The UTF-16 function takes a >> "string" and will not work with a "light user data" so I need to know how >> to convert the light user data from the iup.clipboard to a string using >> just lua. >> >> >> -- >> Jane. >> >> Jane Taubman | www.rjt.org.uk | www.taubman.org.uk | www.fhug.org.uk >> _______________________________________________ >> Iup-users mailing list >> Iup-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/iup-users >> > > _______________________________________________ > Iup-users mailing list > Iup-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/iup-users > -- Jane. Jane Taubman | www.rjt.org.uk | www.taubman.org.uk | www.fhug.org.uk
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