On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 12:06 AM, Amir E. Aharoni amir.aharoni@mail.huji.ac.il wrote:
Is there any way to handle Unicode strings in the version that is going to be deployed? For example, things like getting the length of the string "François" as 8 rather than 9?
If not, is there any plan to have this ability any time soon?
Yes, a library has been written for Scribunto called "ustring" to handle unicode. We've actually got docs for this (and a couple of other libraries) available on mw.org[0].
-Chad
[0] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Scribunto/Lua_reference_manual