From: Richard Jones <rich@annexia.org>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] accented letters in identifiers
Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 21:10:04 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070308210959.GA26279@furbychan.cocan.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200703081000.l28A0VJ16234@virtutech.se>
On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 11:00:31AM +0100, Mattias Engdegård wrote:
> And latin-1 is a bit quaint these days; it's not even enough for French.
> Let's support utf-8! Apart from being vastly more linguistically
> inclusive, it would allow us scientific programmers to use Greek letters.
Yes, UTF-8 please!
Perl has allowed UTF-8 for quite a few years now - eg. you can have
functions with Chinese or Japanese names.
Of course it's not directly backwards-compatible with existing files,
but I'm sure a compiler flag could sort that out.
Rich.
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Richard Jones
Red Hat
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-03-08 21:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-03-07 22:38 michel levy
2007-03-07 22:40 ` [Caml-list] " Martin Jambon
2007-03-07 22:59 ` Martin Jambon
2007-03-08 10:00 ` Mattias Engdegård
2007-03-08 21:10 ` Richard Jones [this message]
2007-03-08 21:11 ` Martin Jambon
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