From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from weis@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id VAA11717 for caml-red; Sun, 14 Jan 2001 21:32:17 +0100 (MET) Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA18668 for ; Sat, 13 Jan 2001 12:24:10 +0100 (MET) Received: from dux.ru (ns.dux.ru [193.125.210.65]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.10.0) with ESMTP id f0DBO9H27309 for ; Sat, 13 Jan 2001 12:24:09 +0100 (MET) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by dux.ru (8.8.8/8.7.6/DUX) with UUCP id OAA20332 for caml-list@inria.fr; Sat, 13 Jan 2001 14:24:08 +0300 (MSK) Received: (qmail 1490 invoked from network); 12 Jan 2001 21:38:32 -0000 Received: from softdnserror (HELO snob.spb.ru) (snob@192.168.200.3) by softdnserror with SMTP; 12 Jan 2001 21:38:32 -0000 Message-ID: <3A5F7635.AF7E0DE6@snob.spb.ru> Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 00:25:09 +0300 From: Nickolay Semyonov X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.16-22 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dave Berry CC: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: Unicode (was RE: JIT-compilation for OCaml?) References: <3145774E67D8D111BE6E00C0DF418B663AD720@nt.kal.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: weis@pauillac.inria.fr Dave Berry wrote: > >I thought Unicode was a recognised subset of ISO-10646,corresponding to the > range 0-2^16. Also, don't Windows NT/2000 use Unicode? > >My knowledge of C/C++ is probably out of date, but I thought they just used > the wide character type, without requiring a particular internal > representation. In what way do ISO C/C++ support ISO-10646? > > (I realise this isn't directly on-topic, but it may be relevant for future > extensions to OCaml?) > Actually I think that default Ocaml string --- must be unicode (or ISO-10XXX, that doesn't matter. It is really hard to write multilingual applications in Ocaml now. Nickolay