I was debugguing a regular-expression and noticed that \" in a string remained as-is and this somehow seems linked to my quotation problem : # let a="\"";; val a : string = "\"" # let a="\034";; val a : string = "\"" Is it expected behaviour? :o I can't get such a quote in any string. (self-compiled ocaml 3.09.3 under mingw+msys)