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=AWL autolearn=disabled version=3.1.3 Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09DE7BC69 for ; Thu, 8 Mar 2007 22:10:12 +0100 (CET) Received: from furbychan.cocan.org (furbychan.cocan.org [80.68.91.176]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l28LA75e007998 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO) for ; Thu, 8 Mar 2007 22:10:11 +0100 Received: from rich by furbychan.cocan.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1HPPsD-0008DQ-00 for ; Thu, 08 Mar 2007 21:10:05 +0000 Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 21:10:04 +0000 To: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] accented letters in identifiers Message-ID: <20070308210959.GA26279@furbychan.cocan.org> References: <45EF3EFB.5060509@imag.fr> <200703081000.l28A0VJ16234@virtutech.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <200703081000.l28A0VJ16234@virtutech.se> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i From: Richard Jones X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 45F07BAF.002 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail . ensmp . fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; 0100,:01 mattias:01 vastly:01 compiler:01 wrote:01 caml-list:01 functions:01 identifiers:04 thu:05 quite:07 red:92 i'm:09 flag:09 perl:09 bit:11 On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 11:00:31AM +0100, Mattias Engdegård wrote: > And latin-1 is a bit quaint these days; it's not even enough for French. > Let's support utf-8! Apart from being vastly more linguistically > inclusive, it would allow us scientific programmers to use Greek letters. Yes, UTF-8 please! Perl has allowed UTF-8 for quite a few years now - eg. you can have functions with Chinese or Japanese names. Of course it's not directly backwards-compatible with existing files, but I'm sure a compiler flag could sort that out. Rich. -- Richard Jones Red Hat