Utf8
Supported platforms:
Available since: Gideros 2016.06
Description
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Methods
utf8.byte - Returns the internal numerical codes of the characters
utf8.char - Returns a string from integers as characters
utf8.charpos - convert UTF-8 position to byte offset
utf8.codepoint - Returns the codepoints (as integers) from all characters
utf8.codes - Returns values so that the construction
utf8.escape - Escape a str to UTF-8 format string
utf8.find - Looks for the first match of pattern in the string s
utf8.fold - convert UTF-8 string s to folded case used to compare by ignore case
utf8.gmatch - Returns an iterator function
utf8.gsub - Returns a copy of s in which all (or the first n, if given) occurrences of the pattern have been replaced
utf8.insert - Insert a substring to s
utf8.len - Returns the number of UTF-8 characters in string
utf8.lower - Receives a string and returns a copy of this string with all uppercase letters changed to lowercase
utf8.match - Looks for the first match of pattern in the string s
utf8.ncasecmp - Compare a and b without case
utf8.next - Iterate though the UTF-8 string s
utf8.offset - Returns the position (in bytes) where the encoding of the n-th character of s
utf8.remove - Delete a substring in s
utf8.reverse - Returns a string that is the string s reversed.
utf8.sub - Returns the substring of s that starts at i and continues until j
utf8.title - Convert UTF-8 string s to title case used to compare by ignore case
utf8.upper - Receives a string and returns a copy of this string with all lowercase letters changed to uppercase.
utf8.width - calculate the width of UTF-8 string s
utf8.widthindex - Return the character index at given location in string s.
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