From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=disabled version=3.1.3 X-Original-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E964BC6B for ; Thu, 8 Mar 2007 22:12:59 +0100 (CET) Received: from out5.smtp.messagingengine.com (out5.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.29]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l28LCw6f008763 for ; Thu, 8 Mar 2007 22:12:59 +0100 Received: from out1.internal (unknown [10.202.2.149]) by out1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CD261F6677; Thu, 8 Mar 2007 16:12:58 -0500 (EST) Received: from heartbeat1.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.160]) by out1.internal (MEProxy); Thu, 08 Mar 2007 16:12:58 -0500 X-Sasl-enc: zSZbvn5Nm2EbI3S/CmmrSU/Tm7FfcVegCmKC1a+aX0Y2 1173388378 Received: from [172.16.112.115] (burnham.ljcrf.edu [192.231.106.2]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3458213DD8; Thu, 8 Mar 2007 16:12:58 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 13:11:52 -0800 (PST) From: Martin Jambon X-X-Sender: martin@localhost To: Martin Jambon Cc: michel levy , caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] accented letters in identifiers In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <45EF3EFB.5060509@imag.fr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 45F07C5B.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail . ensmp . fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; ens-lyon:01 macos:01 recognizes:01 ocaml:01 ocaml:01 2007,:98 2007,:98 wrote:01 wrote:01 caml-list:01 michel:01 jambon:01 jambon:01 let:03 character:04 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 -- Martin Jambon http://martin.jambon.free.fr