Arabic text to array of letters using string.gmatch in Corona SDK

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Please help

I'm trying to send arabic text to array of arabic letters using string.gmatch in corona sdk so please help to do it right

local lArray={}
local t="من جد وجد ومن زرع حصد"
for value in string.gmatch(t,".") do 
lArray [index] = value
print(value)
index = index + 1
end

The output is this character

2013-12-25 22:48:01.337 Corona Simulator[4878:507] Ù
2013-12-25 22:48:01.337 Corona Simulator[4878:507] …
2013-12-25 22:48:01.337 Corona Simulator[4878:507] Ù
2013-12-25 22:48:01.338 Corona Simulator[4878:507] †

appreciate your help

I found this solution in this post here

[I found this solution it helped me to resolve the issue ][1] [1]: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13235091/extract-the-first-letter-of-a-utf-8-string-with-lua — Mil, Dec 30 '13 at 17:00

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 25 '13 at 19:17

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Unless Corona has added it, pattern matching in Lua does nor support Unicode.

answered Dec 25 '13 at 19:17

lhf

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 24 '17 at 08:05

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You can use utf8 plugin https://docs.coronalabs.com/plugin/utf8/index.html

string.gmatch( s, pattern )

s:gmatch( pattern )

answered Aug 24 '17 at 08:05

Arash

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Arabic text to array of letters using string.gmatch in Corona SDK

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