From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.105]) by walapai.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id p1SB0UTS025358 for ; Mon, 28 Feb 2011 12:00:30 +0100 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AsQHAIwPa01QW+UMgWdsb2JhbACEJJQNjhUVAQEWIiWre498gSeDRHYEjB0 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.62,238,1297033200"; d="scan'208";a="88822353" Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by mail4-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 28 Feb 2011 12:00:00 +0100 Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Pu0pa-0001Ij-O0 for caml-list@inria.fr; Mon, 28 Feb 2011 11:59:58 +0100 Received: from avelizy-155-1-79-130.w90-2.abo.wanadoo.fr ([90.2.30.130]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 28 Feb 2011 11:59:58 +0100 Received: from sylvain by avelizy-155-1-79-130.w90-2.abo.wanadoo.fr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 28 Feb 2011 11:59:58 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: caml-list@inria.fr From: Sylvain Le Gall Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 10:59:42 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <20110228.093528.996524125295855263.Christophe.Troestler@umons.ac.be> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: avelizy-155-1-79-130.w90-2.abo.wanadoo.fr User-Agent: slrn/pre1.0.0-18 (Linux) Subject: [Caml-list] Re: GSoC: better UTF-8 support Hello, On 28-02-2011, Daniel Bünzli wrote: >> - 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. > Alain Frisch is not the kind of student we will have for GSoC... Let say that it can take a while for an average student to reach 1% of the level of Alain, wrt to OCaml. So these few lines, can take a while to be produced. I think the whole task make sense for a GSoC and will be enough for a full GSoC for a normal student. Cheers, Sylvain Le Gall -- My company: http://www.ocamlcore.com Linkedin: http://fr.linkedin.com/in/sylvainlegall Start an OCaml project here: http://forge.ocamlcore.org OCaml blogs: http://planet.ocamlcore.org