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This is an iteration function to traverse each single codepoint of a UTF-8 string.

Syntax

 utf8.next ( )

Code Examples

server

This example shows how to traverse a UTF-8 string the proper way without running into problems as in byte strings.

for position, codepoint in utf8.next, "utf8-string" do
    print( "Codepoint @ ".. position .." = ".. codepoint )
end

for position, codepoint in utf8.next, "Как" do
    print( "Codepoint @ ".. position .." = ".. codepoint )
end

See Also

Reference

• Scripting Functions