From: Paul Steckler <steck@stecksoft.com>
To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Windows filenames and Unicode
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 15:05:39 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTikXYCdGHBzQ0G4mRbrWcA245K5oOp1CZay-OYoT@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In Windows, NTFS filenames are specified in Unicode (UTF-16). Am I
right in thinking that
OCaml file primitives, like open_in, readdir, etc. cannot handle NTFS
filenames containing
characters with codepoints greater than 255?
I'm aware of the Camomile library, which gives the ability to
manipulate UTF-16 strings inside
of OCaml. But it looks like crucial points of OCaml's I/O, like
Sys.argv and file primitives are
strictly limited to 8-bit characters.
Is there a way around this limitation, other than rewriting the file
I/O primitives?
-- Paul
next reply other threads:[~2010-09-29 5:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-29 5:05 Paul Steckler [this message]
2010-09-29 6:23 ` [Caml-list] " David Allsopp
2010-09-29 7:26 ` Paul Steckler
2010-09-29 7:56 ` Michael Ekstrand
2010-09-29 7:58 ` David Allsopp
2010-09-29 8:14 ` Jerome Vouillon
2010-09-30 19:27 ` ygrek
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