From: Sylvain Le Gall <sylvain@le-gall.net>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: Unicode, update
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 10:32:19 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <slrnibdn1j.fmh.sylvain@gallu.homelinux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinH9kmUwwHa8sOQyHO+ARNY3oXA6bmdRseQgPiZ@mail.gmail.com>
Hello,
On 14-10-2010, Paul Steckler <steck@stecksoft.com> wrote:
> A couple of weeks ago or so, I asked about using OCaml file primitives
> with the Camomile library for Unicode
> on Windows. I thought I'd update people on the list about my
> resolution of these issues.
>
> I decided to make the application UTF-8 throughout, so that the string
> type always means UTF-8 -- OK, there
> are a few exceptions to that rule. The SQLite3 library already deals
> with UTF-8 in a graceful way, The same is
> true for the C/C++ parsing library I'm using. That leaves the OCaml
> library procedures, like open_in and open_out,
> which definitely don't handle Unicode filenames on Windows.
>
> I took the OCaml sources and made modified versions of functions, like
> file_exists, open_in, and so on,
> that convert filenames from UTF-8 to UTF-16 and then used "wide"
> versions of the underlying Win32
> primitives. In some cases, I had to convert UTF-16 back to UTF-8.
> The Win32 functions MultiByteToWideChar
> and WideCharToMultiByte handle those conversions nicely. I link in
> these new functions, named
> file_exists_win32, open_in_win32, etc., and everything works a treat.
>
Would it be possible to publish them as an external library?
Thanks for the update
Sylvain Le Gall
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