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 QAA18749 for caml-red; Sat, 20 Jan 2001 16:26:40 +0100 (MET) Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA02734 for ; Wed, 17 Jan 2001 20:48:55 +0100 (MET) Received: from localhost.localdomain (ppp46.dyn146.pacific.net.au [210.23.146.46]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.10.0) with ESMTP id f0HJmqv24702 for ; Wed, 17 Jan 2001 20:48:53 +0100 (MET) Received: from ozemail.com.au (IDENT:root@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.localdomain (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id GAA20832; Thu, 18 Jan 2001 06:47:52 +1100 Message-ID: <3A65F6E8.EC82FA96@ozemail.com.au> Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 06:47:52 +1100 From: John Max Skaller X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.12-20 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nickolay Semyonov CC: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: Unicode (was RE: JIT-compilation for OCaml?) References: <3145774E67D8D111BE6E00C0DF418B663AD720@nt.kal.com> <20010111194916.B4332@pauillac.inria.fr> <3A5F7685.FF2593BB@snob.spb.ru> <3A5F780E.B263DC50@snob.spb.ru> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: weis@pauillac.inria.fr Nickolay Semyonov wrote: > > Nickolay Semyonov wrote: > > Xavier Leroy wrote: > > > Shall we "do it right" (for some notion of "right") or favor > > interoperability? Hard question. My current answer is to > > procrastinate... Actually, multi-byte encoded strings (UTF-8) are > not > > so bad and already have full support in OCaml :-) > > > > Er, where? Am I missed something? Ocaml is '8 bit clean', which means that strings of bytes may be interpreted by user code as UTF-8 encoded ISO-10646 code points. -- John (Max) Skaller, mailto:skaller@maxtal.com.au 10/1 Toxteth Rd Glebe NSW 2037 Australia voice: 61-2-9660-0850 checkout Vyper http://Vyper.sourceforge.net download Interscript http://Interscript.sourceforge.net