"Not enough space" error when printing a string

[YounYokel]

I insist that you head over to Wikipedia and study carefully the article about UTF-8 encoding.

Weird that other function does work which inserts a string in given position works which is almost the same.

I'm pretty sure inserting to an index that would be between two bytes of a multibyte character would also break.

Uh... I didn't understand a word. Sorry(

[dusoft]

Uh... I didn't understand a word. Sorry(

Point is that UTF-8/Unicode characters are coded in multiple bytes. So, if you try crop or get a substring of string, it can cut the string in the middle of an actual Unicode character. E.g.

-- ASCII chars
abcdefgh

e.g. get (ASCII) chars 1 to 4 of this string: abcd

However:
-- Unicode chars (emojis)
🥰

🥰 (Unicode) = \xf0\x9f\xa5\xb0 (UTF-8 encoding)

e.g. get (ASCII) char 1 of this string: \xf0

You are getting a malformed string or possibly error, because Lua is unable to handle this malformed string.

You should never manually do a substring on Unicode/UTF-8 characters, rather use only Unicode/UTF-8 safe functions to handle any cropping or substring cutting.

See this converter: https://www.branah.com/unicode-converter
enter: 🥰
get (4 bytes): \xf0\x9f\xa5\xb0

remove last byte (3 bytes): \xf0\x9f\xa5
get: 

If you accidentally remove subsequent characters, you get a malformed string. Also see "Invalid byte sequences on Wikipedia":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8#Inv ... _sequences

[raidho36]

Seeing how trying to do all of that Unicode handling manually at every corner gets us nowhere, I've made a library. See if it works for you.

https://love2d.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=88211