The Lua manual says this:
For this function, a '^' at the start of a pattern does not work as an
anchor, as this would prevent the iteration.
I had interpreted that to mean that a pattern starting with '^' would
never match in gmatch. But further testing reveals that the '^' is just
treated as a literal character: string.gmatch( "foo ^bar baz", "^%a+" )
will match "^bar".
Change-Id: Id91d6ee2db753ce1d6a4f6ae27764691d9e9fdc4
Fixed several accidental leaks to the global namespace due to missing
"local" declaration. Removed extension of the string table by mw.uri,
same justification as I5d0ddb70.
Change-Id: Iba1bf8e651d4ce05812e4a9a7a074cb6679297a0
The point of putting the unicode library in mw.ustring instead of
ustring was to avoid conflicts with future upstream work, and with other
libraries. It rather defeats the purpose if you then modify the global
string table during module startup.
Users can always set up local aliases if they feel "mw.ustring" is too
much to type.
Change-Id: I5d0ddb70d999aeb6e36e6ddbcdb19922d0274a39
This is a reimplementation of Lua's string library with support for
UTF-8.
The entire ustring library is implemented in pure Lua. PHP callbacks are
also available for overrides: in LuaSandbox these are used for almost
all functions, while in LuaStandalone they are used only for the pattern
matching. Also, ustring.upper and ustring.lower are overridden using
mw.language's .uc and .lc if available.
It also includes a bunch of unit tests.
Note that if you download the normalization tests, they may fail under
LuaSandbox if you have PHP's intl extension installed and libicu on your
system is too old.
Change-Id: Ie76fdf8d3a85d0a3d2a41b0d3b7afe433f247af0
