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Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2007 18:04:57 -0400
From: "Chris King" <colanderman@gmail.com>
To: "Vincent Hanquez" <tab@snarc.org>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Re: Rope is the new string
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On 10/9/07, Vincent Hanquez <tab@snarc.org> wrote:
> i want a UTF library to be able to do something like:
>
> type ustring = unicode_type * string
> of_string: string -> ustring (* raise if not unicode compliant *)
> to_string: ustring -> string
> append: ustring -> ustring -> ustring
> ...etc

Have you checked out Camomile [1]?  It handles such things quite nicely.

[1] http://camomile.sourceforge.net/