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Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 22:27:36 +0300
From: ygrek <ygrekheretix@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Windows filenames and Unicode
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On Wed, 29 Sep 2010 17:26:52 +1000
Paul Steckler <steck@stecksoft.com> wrote:

> For Windows, I could use the same invariant, and modify the OCaml
> runtime so that all calls to
> Windows file primitives have those strings translated to UTF-16 (and
> return values translated back
> to UTF-8).  That is, I'd have to build a custom version of OCaml and
> wrap CreateFile, etc. with
> such Unicode translation functions.

Have a look at http://savannah.nongnu.org/patch/?4515
(and http://ygrek.org.ua/p/ocaml_unicode.html for ocaml/msvc).

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