Lua 5.3 can iterate over a UTF-8 string. You can even index character positions (not byte positions) in a UTF-8 string. Some more information here: https://ww

Lua 5.3 can iterate over a UTF-8 string. You can even index character positions (not byte positions) in a UTF-8 string. Some more information here: https://www.lua.org/manual/5.3/manual.html#6.5 https://www.lua.org/manual/5.3/manual.html#6.5 Edit: fixed link