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From: "Daniel Bünzli" <daniel.buenzli@erratique.ch>
To: Christophe TROESTLER <Christophe.Troestler@umons.ac.be>
Cc: OCaml Mailing List <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] GSoC: better UTF-8 support
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 09:58:45 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTimBj_J3PaC1U-WQqi+zujC_tFR4MsLx0O5Fsbds@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110228.093528.996524125295855263.Christophe.Troestler@umons.ac.be>

> - A flag (-utf8 ?) to the compilers should be added so that errors
>  locations are correct in presence of UTF-8 strings [the programmer
>  restricting himself to ASCII identifiers].

Alain mentioned that the patch would only be a few lines long.

> - ocamldoc: while an UTF-8 aware doc-generator is very easy to write,
>  it would be nice to be able to parametrize any of them with the
>  correct charset (using again the -utf8 flag ?)

http://caml.inria.fr/mantis/bug_view_page.php?bug_id=5066

> - UTF8.Char and UTF8.String modules should be written with the same
>  interface as Char and String.  [Camomile should be adapted
>  consequently.]

Is it a good idea to replicate the poor interface that the module Char
and String represent to manipulate strings ?

> - Graphics: UTF-8 text printing

Are there really a lot of people using the Graphics module ?

> - Str: (character ranges)

This would be the only interesting thing to me.

Daniel


  reply	other threads:[~2011-02-28  8:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-02-28  8:35 Christophe TROESTLER
2011-02-28  8:58 ` Daniel Bünzli [this message]
2011-02-28 10:07   ` David Allsopp
2011-02-28 11:21     ` Daniel Bünzli
2011-02-28 11:46       ` David Allsopp
2011-02-28 12:32         ` Daniel Bünzli
2011-02-28 12:59           ` [Caml-list] " Sylvain Le Gall
2011-02-28 10:59   ` Sylvain Le Gall
2011-02-28 14:39   ` [Caml-list] " David Rajchenbach-Teller
2011-02-28 10:07 ` David Allsopp
     [not found]   ` <20110228.143157.1265982603697554449.Christophe.Troestler+ocaml@umons.ac.be>
2011-02-28 14:11     ` Daniel Bünzli
2011-02-28 14:57       ` Dario Teixeira
2011-02-28 14:13 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2011-02-28 14:31   ` [Caml-list] " Sylvain Le Gall
2011-02-28 15:09   ` [Caml-list] " Dario Teixeira
2011-02-28 15:50   ` David Allsopp
2011-03-01  5:49     ` [Caml-list] " Yoriyuki Yamagata
2011-02-28 14:21 ` [Caml-list] " Michael Ekstrand
2011-03-03 15:37 ` Damien Doligez
2011-03-03 16:42   ` Dario Teixeira

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