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From: Florian Hars <hars@bik-gmbh.de>
To: Dario Teixeira <darioteixeira@yahoo.com>
Cc: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Storing UTF-8 in plain strings
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 08:10:00 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A83AE38.7070005@bik-gmbh.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51021.92432.qm@web111506.mail.gq1.yahoo.com>

Dario Teixeira schrieb:
> So, can someone find any problems with this reasoning?

No, the kind of compatibility with legacy code you described is
one of the original design goals of UTF-8, see
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/utf-8-history.txt

- Florian.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-08-13  6:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-12 17:36 Dario Teixeira
2009-08-12 18:24 ` Michael Ekstrand
2009-08-12 20:51 ` [Caml-list] " Edgar Friendly
2009-08-12 21:33   ` Jake Donham
2009-08-13  6:10 ` Florian Hars [this message]
2009-08-13  9:37 ` Dario Teixeira
2009-08-13 13:14   ` Dario Teixeira
2009-08-13 11:00 ` Richard Jones

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