[Caml-list] Missing position in emacs for utf-8 sources

[Caml-list] Missing position in emacs for utf-8 sources

[Artem Prisyznuk]

Hello,

I use utf-8 locale, and write comment in my sources on
russian language. So russians char has two byte representation
in source. When I compile my sources compiler recognize these
chars as two chars, so error position printed by compiler
is in bytes not in chars, so emacs command goto-char put cursor
in wron position.

Who that faced with a similar problem? How it can be solved?

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Re: [Caml-list] Missing position in emacs for utf-8 sources

[Richard Jones]

On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 01:52:17PM +0200, Artem Prisyznuk wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I use utf-8 locale, and write comment in my sources on
> russian language. So russians char has two byte representation
> in source. When I compile my sources compiler recognize these
> chars as two chars, so error position printed by compiler
> is in bytes not in chars, so emacs command goto-char put cursor
> in wron position.
> 
> Who that faced with a similar problem? How it can be solved?

Me too!

A similar issue is discussed on the ocaml-i18n list[0]. Basically I
requested that we make all ML files UTF-8 (assuming the locale is
UTF-8[1]). This way too you might be able to define functions with
Russian (or Chinese, or Japanese, or whatever names). The issue was
raised about how to tell the difference between a "lowercase" function
name and an "uppercase" variant name in Japanese :-)

Rich.

[0] http://www.orcaware.com/mailman/listinfo/ocaml-i18n

[1] Or have a compiler flag, but there are reasons why having -u8
flags isn't a good idea.

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