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From: Martin Jambon <martin.jambon@ens-lyon.org>
To: Martin Jambon <martin.jambon@ens-lyon.org>
Cc: michel levy <michel.levy@imag.fr>, caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] accented letters in identifiers
Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 13:11:52 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0703081305230.8999@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0703071455040.5143@localhost>

On Wed, 7 Mar 2007, Martin Jambon wrote:

> On Wed, 7 Mar 2007, Martin Jambon wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 7 Mar 2007, michel levy wrote:
> >
> > > I read in the manual :
> > > The current implementation (except on MacOS 9) also recognizes as
> > > letters all accented characters from the ISO 8859-1 (?ISO Latin 1?) set.
> > > But on ocaml 3.09.3 I have
> > > #let à = 1;;
> > > Illegal character (\160)
> > >
> > > is it now impossible to use the accented characters ?
> >
> > Yes. Here the problem is the non-breakable space between "à" and "="
> > which is character 160.
>
> I mean no. It is possible to use latin1 accents.

Just a small correction after exchanging of few emails with the OP: there
may be problems with the terminal configuration. When the configuration is
right (iso-8859-1/15 charset + some other settings), accents work in
the interactive ocaml interpreter.


Martin

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Martin Jambon
http://martin.jambon.free.fr


      parent reply	other threads:[~2007-03-08 21:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-03-07 22:38 michel levy
2007-03-07 22:40 ` [Caml-list] " Martin Jambon
2007-03-07 22:59   ` Martin Jambon
2007-03-08 10:00     ` Mattias Engdegård
2007-03-08 21:10       ` Richard Jones
2007-03-08 21:11     ` Martin Jambon [this message]

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